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Author: Rob
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To: dng@lists.dyne.org
Subject: Re: [DNG] updatedb ignores PRUNEPATHS in updatedb.conf



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On Thursday, 25 October 2018 18:51, Joel Roth <joelz@???> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> updatedb has been around for so long, I'm sure it works
> as advertised, but when I add the paths of my external
> devices, they still get probed.
>
> First I tried adding /mnt then the specific mount point /mnt/matte
> but still gets searched.
>
> Here is the entire config file.
>
> PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS="yes"
> PRUNENAMES=".git .bzr .hg .svn"
> PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/spool /media /var/lib/os-prober /var/lib/ceph /mnt/red /mnt/matte"
> PRUNEFS="NFS nfs nfs4 rpc_pipefs afs binfmt_misc proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs devtmpfs fuse.mfs shfs sysfs cifs lustre tmpfs usbfs udf fuse.glusterfs fuse.sshfs curlftpfs ceph fuse.ceph fuse.rozofs"
>
> Any suggestions, pointers, etc. would be welcome.
>
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> Joel Roth
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Possibly might be relevant:

https://serverfault.com/questions/454051/how-can-i-view-updatedb-database-content-and-then-exclude-certain-files-paths

rob