Why updatedb doesn't traverse my external HD?

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Friday 23 December 2011 10:36:47 G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> On 12/23/2011 10:33 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > [root at Yoda ~]# cat /etc/updatedb.conf
> > PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS = "no"
> > PRUNEFS = "9p afs anon_inodefs auto autofs bdev binfmt_misc cgroup cifs
> > coda configfs cpuset debugfs devpts ecryptfs exofs fuse fuse.sshfs
> > fusectl gfs gfs2 hugetlbfs inotifyfs iso9660 jffs2 lustre mqueue ncpfs
> > nfs nfs4 nfsd pipefs proc ramfs rootfs rpc_pipefs securityfs selinuxfs
> > sfs sockfs sysfs tmpfs ubifs udf usbfs"
> > PRUNENAMES = ".git .hg .svn"
> > PRUNEPATHS = "/afs /mnt /net /sfs /tmp /udev /var/cache/ccache
> > /var/spool/cups /var/spool/squid /var/tmp"
> > 
> > I have also configured bind mounts to be traversed, hoping that it might
> > fix the problem with /media. It didn't.
> > 
> > This configuration used to work on F14. Skipped F15, clean-installed
> > F16, if it matters.
> 
> Maybe the "usbfs" tag in prunefs?

Well, my HD is indeed connected to a USB port, but it is formatted ext4, so I 
don't see how could usbfs be matched against that. I'll retry without usbfs 
just to check, but I doubt that will help...

Best, :-)
Marko