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

  1. Go to System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
  2. Drag the volume into the list
  3. Ta da!

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