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I have two drives on my MacBook Pro. One is a SSD with the root (/) partition, and the other is a hard drive with a home directory partition (/Users). Both partitions are HFS+ format.

When I make a search using Spotlight, nothing on the /Users partition is searchable, since it is not indexed.

Trying to use mdutil to start indexing the drive does not work:

## Attempt to enable indexing and flush any existing index
$ mdutil -i on -E /Users
/Users:
        Indexing and searching disabled.

## Attempting the same as above to all volumes
$ mdutil -i on -E -a
/:
        Indexing enabled. 
/Users:
        Indexing and searching disabled.
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Turns out this is due to having the nobrowse mount option set for the affected partition. Removing this option for the partition's /etc/fstab line fixes this issue.

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  • You did not name this in the question, did you?
    – Rob
    Commented Apr 8, 2014 at 13:33
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  1. Open System settings
  2. Click Spotlight
  3. Click Privacy
  4. Open a finder window and navigate to /Volumes
  5. Drag the harddrive to the available space as you can see on image below
  6. Click the - to remove the disk and it will start indexing again

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  • I tried adding and removing the root partition and the /Users partition, and that did not work.
    – andonuts
    Commented Apr 8, 2014 at 12:22

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