Why updatedb doesn't traverse my external HD?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 13:39 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: 
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:21 PM, JB <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anything mounted on /media has to be of actual "type" of that media.
> > Btw, a CD mounted on /media, even if temporarily, represents "a persistent
> > storage device", and certainly NOT "volatile memory" (e.g. of type shm).
> >
> > I think systemd devs need to remove it - it is a pure nonsense.
> 
> /media is on tmpfs simply because it's faster to keep the mountpoints
> in memory than on disk.  That way, you don't have to hit your root
> disk just to locate something that is almost certainly on another
> disk.  It doesn't affect the mounts below it in any way.
> 
> -T.C.

People keep saying that /media is mounted on tmpfs, but what the mount
tells me is that tmpfs is mounted on /media. Which sounds screwy to me.
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