---
name: "tracker-miner-fs.cfg"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "tracker-miner-fs"
version: "0.8.17-1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tracker-miner-fs.cfg"
---

# tracker-miner-fs.cfg(5)

Configuration file for tracker-miner-fs

## NAME

tracker-miner-fs.cfg - Configuration file for tracker-miner-fs

## DESCRIPTION

This file resides in $HOME/.config/tracker/ and uses the common .ini format, i.e.

  \[Group\]\
   \# Comment\
   Key=Value

## SECTIONS

### \[General\]

- **Verbosity**

  Log verbosity, 0=errors, 1=minimal, 2=detailed, 3=debug.

- **InitialSleep=15**

  Time in seconds before crawling filesystem (0-\>1000).

### \[Monitors\]

- **EnableMonitors=true**

  Set to false to completely disable any monitoring.

- **ScanTimeout=0**

  Time in seconds between same events to prevent flooding (0-\>1000).

- **CacheTimeout=60**

  Time in seconds for events to be cached (0-\>1000).

### \[Indexing\]

- **Throttle=0**

  Sets the indexing speed (0-\>20, where 20=slowest speed).

- **IndexOnBattery=false**

  Set to true to index while running on battery.

- **IndexOnBatteryFirstTime=true**

  Set to true to index while running on battery for the first time only.

- **IndexMountedDirectories=true**

  Set to true to enable traversing mounted directories on other file systems (this excludes removable devices).

- **IndexRemovableMedia=true**

  Set to true to enable traversing **ALL** removable media such as memory cards, CDs, DVDS, etc. Disabling this means that **IndexOpticalDiscs** has no effect and is considered false.

- **IndexOpticalDiscs=false**

  Set to true to enable traversing optical discs only, this includes CDs DVDs, etc. **IndexRemovableMedia** must be true for this option to have any effect.

- **LowDiskSpaceLimit=1**

  Pause indexer when disk space is \<= this value (0-\>100, value is in % of $HOME file system, -1=disable pausing).

- **IndexRecursiveDirectories=$HOME;**

  List of directories to crawl recursively for indexing (separator=;).

- **IndexSingleDirectories=**

  List of directories to index but not sub-directories for changes (separator=;).

- **IgnoredDirectories=po;CVS;.svn;.git;core-dumps;**

  List of directories to NOT crawl for indexing (separator=;).

- **IgnoredDirectoriesWithContent=backup.metadata;**

  List of directories to NOT crawl for indexing based on child files (separator=;).

- **IgnoredFiles=\*~;\*.o;**

  List of files to NOT index (separator=;).

## SEE ALSO

[**tracker-miner-fs**(1)](/tracker-miner-fs/1.md), [**tracker-extract.cfg**(5)](/tracker-extract.cfg/5.md), [**tracker-fts.cfg**(5)](/tracker-fts.cfg/5.md), [**tracker-store.cfg**(5)](/tracker-store.cfg/5.md).