Disable Spotlight Indexing on a Volume in OS X Revision as of Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 19:56 UTC
Like a Man
Let’s say our drive is called (and mounted as) Backup Drive. Open up a
terminal window:
cd "/Volumes/Backup Drive"
touch .metadata_never_index
Et voila!
Via System Preferences
- Go to System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
- Drag the volume into the list
- Ta da!