Dash does not index Private directory

Bug #1242762 reported by Dac Chartrand
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Bug Description

Using Ubuntu 13.10

Prerequisite:
Create a ~/.Private directory following these steps:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory

Steps to reproduce

1) Put files in ~/.Private
2) Super+F
3) Search for a file located in Private

Expected: The file can be found.
Actual: File cannot be found

Thank you for your help.

Tags: dash
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Dac Chartrand (conner-bw) wrote :

Same problem described here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/334229/dash-is-not-searching-all-files

The workaround is to edit `/etc/updatedb.conf` and change `PRUNEFS` to not skip `ecryptfs` file systems.

With a caveat: this will leak the names of files in your home folder onto non-encrypted storage

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