updatedb not updating to include external drive

[Jon Grant]

On 05/04/2008, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, I don't think it is excluded:

 Global options for invocations of find(1)
FINDOPTIONS='-ignore_readdir_race'
export FINDOPTIONS
# filesystems which are pruned from updatedb database
PRUNEFS="NFS nfs nfs4 afs binfmt_misc proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs
coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs shfs sysfs cifs lustre_lite tmpfs usbfs
udf"
export PRUNEFS
# paths which are pruned from updatedb database
PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /amd /alex /var/spool /sfs"
export PRUNEPATHS
# netpaths which are added
NETPATHS=""
export NETPATHS
# run find as this user
LOCALUSER="nobody"
export LOCALUSER
# cron.daily/find: run at this priority -- higher number means lower priority
# (this is relative to the default which cron sets, which is usually +5)
NICE=10
export NICE
# cron.daily: I/O priority
# 1 for real time, 2 for best-effort (3 for idle is only allowed for root!)
IONICE_CLASS=2
export IONICE_CLASS
# 0-7 (for IONICE_CLASS 1 and 2 only), 0=highest, 7=lowest
IONICE_PRIORITY=7
export IONICE_PRIORITY


it is mounted as ext3


/dev/sdb1 on /media/external type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=now3d)


iin /etc/fstab it is like this:

/dev/sdb1       /media/external auto defaults,user,noexec 0

^ but it doesn't mount automatically when I boot my laptop, is there a
way to get it to do that?  Will that still work if the external USB2
drive is not plugged in?

thanks for the tips
Kind regards, Jon