Add option to disable Spotlight indexing of mounted volume

aburgh / Disk-Arbitrator

A Mac OS X forensic utility which manages file system mounting in support of forensic procedures.

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

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Open aburgh opened 11 years ago

aburgh commented 11 years ago

When a volume is mounted, Spotlight will index it even if it is mounted read-only.

aburgh commented 11 years ago

Some potential solutions:

mdutil -d /Volumes/MountPoint
mdutil -i off /Volumes/MountPoint
append .noindex to the mount point
create .metadata_never_index in the root of the file system (an option for the user, but not for the utility)