Spotlight keeps indexing a volume even though it's on the "Prevent List"

Picture is worth a thousand words:
Basically my volume, Lucifer, is indexed time and time again by Spotlight even though I have placed the volume on the list of volume sto be ignored by Spotlight. Teh other volume, Media, is never indexed, but Lucifer is always being indexed and this is extremely annoying as it slows down the machine. I have removed Luciefr from the list and added it again and it does not work.
Looks like a bug to me.

Run this command in the Terminal app:
*mdutil -s /Volumes/*
It should return at least these:
/Volumes/Lucifer:
+Indexing and searching disabled.+
/Volumes/Media:
+Indexing and searching disabled.+
If not, run this one to disable indexing on Lucifer:
*sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/Lucifer*
at the Password: prompt, enter your admin password carefully, since it doesn't display on the screen, and hit the return key. Enter the first command to ensure you get that it's disabled for Lucifer.

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