Why updatedb doesn't traverse my external HD?

G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe at gmail.com
Sat Dec 24 17:44:58 UTC 2011


looking at the output of the mount command on F16, it lists tmpfs on 
/media. This is different from F14 and Gentoo, where /media is a regular 
directory.

Look for the start up stuff that makes the mount and disable it, then 
/media will just be a directory.  However, the USB subsystem may not 
properly work.

Another possibility is figuring out the udev stuff that mounts the 
external drive and adding a custom stanza to the rules to mount it 
somewhere beside /media.

Perhaps someone with more expertise in the systemd/usdev/etc stuff can 
comment?

-- 
G.Wolfe Woodbury
aka redwolfe



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