updatedb not updating to include external drive

[Nils Kassube]

Jon Grant wrote:
> I'm unable to get updatedb to index my external drive. Any ideas?
>
> I edited /etc/updatedb.conf to not exclude /media  :-
>
> # paths which are pruned from updatedb database
> PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /amd /alex /var/spool /sfs"
> export PRUNEPATHS

Check if your external drive uses one of the file systems mentioned for 
PRUNEFS in /etc/updatedb.conf.


Nils