How to see /Volumes in spotlight privacy?

I'd like to stop the OS from copying various hidden files and folders in any USB. So, I want to put /Volumes in spotlight privacy section. But it's not visible, I'm guessing it's hidden and not sure how to un-hide it.
Thanks.

You could delete them manually. You can reveal all hidden files either by inspecting them in Terminal or unhiding them from Finder. To do the latter, copy and paste this into Terminal.app
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE; killall Finder
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G'day all. I'm having a spotlight problem and I'd be very grateful for any help.
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Spotlight refuses to index one of my partitions, and both the Privacy "trick" in System Preferences to force a re-index, plus using mdutil in the terminal, both produce unknown errors.
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I have my hard drive partitioned into two, one for the OS the other for my home folder. I've used the advanced settings in the System Preferences > Accounts to tell my user account to find my home folder on the second partition.
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I've tried the above statements both logged in as root as well as logged in as me.
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Usually when updating my system I just do an upgrade install, and admittedly this has left a lot of legacy stuff lying around over the years, and various problems have been building recently, including this one, so a few weeks ago I bit the bullet and gave my system a full clean out:
I swapped my existing hard drive for a new one, formatted the new one, set up the partitions afresh, did a clean install (from the 10.5.4 discs that came with my MacBook Pro), then software updated everything (up to 10.5.6), and then clean reinstalled most of my applications, and manually dragged all my personal stuff back in from the original hard drive (which now is sitting in an external case as a backup in case I realise I've forgotten to transfer something, down the track).
All my other problems have gone away and my system is snappier than it's been in a long time, which is great (and not unexpected!), but this spotlight problem persists. I'm usually pretty clued up with Mac stuff and am generally comfortable in the Terminal but this one's got me stumped. If anyone can help me figure out what is causing this error, I'd be most grateful.
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Thanks V.K. for the suggestions. I've just tried all that, but unfortunately it has not changed the situation.
System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy, and mdutil both still give the same results as before.
A bunch more info in case it's relevant/helpful:
1. The volume in question IS my home folder. ie. the path to my home folder as defined in the Advanced Settings part of System Preferences > Accounts is "/Volumes/David/" (and yes the volume name is "David" with a capital "D"). I mention all that so I can ask is there any problem with having my home folder = a volume? I can't see any reason why this shouldn't work, and for what it's worth this spotlight problem is only recent whereas I've been using this set up ever since I got Leopard on the day it originally came out (and spotlight had been working fine for months until recently).
2. I wonder if there's something else on that volume that's causing problems, or some permissions issue? If it might be any use in diagnosing this issue, here's some ls's:
%ls-al /Volumes/
drwxrwxrwt@ 6 root admin 204 8 Mar 04:15 .
drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin 1224 7 Mar 22:43 ..
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 david admin 6148 3 Mar 17:45 .DS_Store
drwxrwxr-x 35 root admin 1258 8 Mar 04:15 David
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 8 Mar 04:15 MBP15 -> /
...and...
%ls -al /Volumes/David/
drwxrwxr-x 35 root admin 1258 8 Mar 04:15 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 6 root admin 204 8 Mar 04:15 ..
-rw------- 1 david admin 3 4 Feb 23:48 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw-r--r--@ 1 david admin 15364 7 Mar 23:08 .DS_Store
drwxrwxrwt@ 3 david admin 102 5 Feb 19:57 .TemporaryItems
drwx------ 2 david admin 68 8 Mar 04:15 .Trash
d-wx-wx-wt@ 2 root _unknown 68 8 Mar 04:17 .Trashes
-rw------- 1 david admin 66 3 Mar 17:12 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 6 david admin 204 3 Mar 17:15 .bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 0 4 Feb 23:52 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
drwx------ 3 david admin 102 5 Feb 12:59 .cups
drwx------ 5 root _unknown 170 7 Mar 20:02 .fseventsd
-rw------- 1 david admin 2871 8 Mar 04:13 .history
-rw------- 1 david admin 35 7 Mar 23:31 .lesshst
-rwxr-----@ 1 david admin 177 23 Feb 01:39 .login
-rwxr-----@ 1 david admin 181 23 Feb 01:39 .profile
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3. here's an interesting entry from the console at the point where I tried to add the volume to System Preference > Spotlight > Privacy:
mds[32] nosymlink_mkdir() unable to realpath or parent paths do not match p:/Volumes/David/.Spotlight-V100: r:/volumes/David:
4. I notice that when I do that (add the volume) it gives the error message I originally explained ("couldn't be added or removed because of an unknown error"), and adds the above line to the console, but otherwise it appears that nothing has changed (ie. it doesn't show in the list).
If I then quit system preferences, reopen it, and go back into that Privacy tab the volume IS there in the list. If I then try to remove it, I get the same error message and console message, and again nothing appears to happen, but then if I quit system preferences again and then go back into it, the volume is no longer in the list.
There is definitely something weird going on here.
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