Why updatedb doesn't traverse my external HD?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 24.12.2011 21:21, schrieb JB:
> Reindl Harald <h.reindl <at> thelounge.net> writes:
> 
>> Am 24.12.2011 19:58, schrieb Marko Vojinovic:
>>> (1) What is the proper place to customize this configuration? I want
>>> /media to 
>>> be ext4, so that it doesn't get excluded by updatedb. I know I could 
>>> reconfigure the /lib/systemd/system/media.mount, but that would probably be 
>>> overwritten on update or something. How are these things meant to be 
>>> customized?
>>
>> /media is for temporary mounts and this design is OK
>> mount your drive somewhere else
> 
> I think you confuse "temporary mounts" term  with tmpfs.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmpfs
> ...
> It is intended to appear as a mounted file system, but stored in volatile memory
> instead of a persistent storage device.


no, i do not

i am using linux long enough to know tmpfs well

"temporary mount" is not a technical definition
it is simply meant as "some removeable device"

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