updatedb not updating to include external drive

[Jon Grant]

Hello.

Just sending my question again to see if anyone has any ideas. Forward
of original is below.
cheers, Jon

On 02/04/2008, Jon Grant <jg at jguk.org> wrote:
> Hello experts!
>
>  I'm unable to get updatedb to index my external drive. Any ideas?
>
>  I edited /etc/updatedb.conf to not exclude /media  :-
>
>  # paths which are pruned from updatedb database
>  PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /amd /alex /var/spool /sfs"
>  export PRUNEPATHS
>
>
>  My usb2 drive is mounted at /media/usb
>
>  When i manually run "updatedb" it returns after 1 sec. Likewise if I
>  run /etc/cron.daily/slocate it also returns after 1sec.
>
>  any help appreciated, this used to work in the previous ubuntu that I
>  have on my desktop PC.
>
>  Kind regards, Jon
>
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