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Disable Spotlight indexing for a volume
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disable-spotlight-volume.sh
# disable Spotlight indexing for a volume
touch /Volumes/Foobar/.metadata_never_index
# verify indexing status of that volume
mdutil -i on /Volumes/Foobar
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