plocate by default indexes /mnt/c/ in WSL which is the entire host filesystem which has a lot of files which you normally do not want to find with locate.
To ignore it ``/mnt/c`` needs to be added to ``PRUNEPATHS`` under /etc/updatedb.conf``.
plocate by default indexes /mnt/c/ in WSL which is the entire host filesystem which has a lot of files which you normally do not want to find with locate.
To ignore it ``/mnt/c`` needs to be added to ``PRUNEPATHS`` under /etc/updatedb. conf``.