[SOLVED] Changed an option in /etc/updatedb.conf

Question

Hello all,
I started using locate to search my files. However, it never showed files in my /home directory which is, obviously, the directory I search most. Running updatedb --debug-pruning I found out that it didn't add /home to the database because it's an "autofs" filetype:
┌─[jente @ lappy ~] 23:54:27
└─■ sudo updatedb --debug-pruning
`/home' (32 on 18) is `/' of `systemd-1' (0:27), type `autofs'
Skipping `/home': in prunefs
So, I edited /etc/updatedb.conf and removed autofs from the PRUNEFS line. I never found any documentation on this and thus, I don't know if this is the correct way of solving this. Hence this post; I would just like to get some feedback on whether or not I fixed this the right way.
Thanks in advance, guys!
Last edited by Unia (2012-12-15 13:45:36)

Answer 1

Unia wrote:
Mr.Elendig wrote:Another way would be to add your /home to fstab instead.
Hey! Thanks for your input. My /home is actually already there:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=60eb73f7-635c-4b3e-9d6a-8bb49aee739a / ext4 rw,relatime 0 1
# /dev/sda2 LABEL=home
UUID=4470b151-db99-4586-a652-398e0e8995cb /home ext4 rw,relatime,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 2
If your /home is on an internal disk, why use automount?