A very important detail if you mount anything on /media

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Use locate across external devices in Linux

December 5th, 2010 by T4L

By default, updatedb indexes only your root partition when run. To be able to extend locate’s reach and get updatedb to index external devices such as USB harddisks and flash drives, edit the /etc/updatedb.conf file. Modify the following line:

PRUNEPATHS=”/tmp /var/spool /media”

so that it reads

PRUNEPATHS=”/tmp /var/spool”

This adds the devices mounted in the /media directory to the search path.

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I keep my user folders on /media/ DATA which until now has meant that I haven't been using the 'locate' command properly. Little wonder then, that this has frustrated me no end.