On Saturday 24 December 2011 13:33:57 T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > (1) What is the proper place to customize this configuration? I want > > /media to be ext4, so that it doesn't get excluded by updatedb. I know > > I could reconfigure the /lib/systemd/system/media.mount, but that would > > probably be overwritten on update or something. How are these things > > meant to be customized? > > Yup, anything in /lib/systemd could get clobbered on update. Files in > /etc/systemd with the exact same name always override those in /lib, > and /etc/systemd is for sysadmins only; RPM will never mess with > anything there. To completely disable something in /lib, you "mask" > it: just symlink /dev/null to an identically named file in /etc. For > more information, see: > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/three-levels-of-off.html Great, thanks for the pointer, interesting read. :-) > So, to disable the /media mount: > ln -sf /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/media.mount And we have a winner! :-D This is precisely what I was looking for. After masking the media.mount, I rebooted the machine and verified that /media is now just a directory under / (and consequently ext4), and updatedb picks it up and traverses everything below, just as I wanted. Marking this as SOLVED. :-) > > (2) Why is /media being mounted like this? If I reconfigure it back to > > ext4, is anything else going to break? > > For performance reasons. Since /media is intended for temporary > mounts only, it's faster to keep them in memory (via tmpfs) rather > than hitting the disk every time you need to look one up. Makes sense. It seems that this idea just has an (unforseen?) side-effect if one wants to customize updatedb for /media. :-) But this is of course far from the intended default behavior, so no arguments from me there. And in my case performance is not a serious issue. I just need to remember to keep putting the symlink every time I do a fresh install from now on... ;-) > When masking media.mount, /media will revert to being a directory on > your root fs. So long as it has the appropriate permissions, > everything will still work fine. That's nice to know! It would be a very bad thing (for me at least) if tmpfs was a requirement for some other functionality (that I might need simultaneously). Thanks for help goes to T.C. and everyone else who contributed! ;-) Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
