How To Prevent Spotlight From Indexing External Drives on MacOS

Author: erics, February 26th, 2021

On MacOSX 10.10.5 Yosemite, I was having trouble with Spotlight preventing the clean eject of an attached hard drive. Using the fuser command allowed me to see that it what the Spotlight-specific mds process preventing the eject.

fuser -u /Volumes/Archive03

1	fuser -u /Volumes/Archive03

At first, I tried to disable the indexing via the mdutil command, but that just gave me […]

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10.5, apple, Disable, diskutil, eject, Halt, howto, Index, Indexing, Mac, MacOS, macosx, mdutil, metadata_never_index, Prevent, Spotlight, Stop, tips, Touch, umountDisk, Yosemite | 1 comment

How To Eject a Volume from the Terminal Command Line in MacOSX

Author: erics, December 8th, 2015

As always, YMMV…

#!/bin/bash
# Usage: eject [fullpath to mount point]
DISK="${1:-/Volumes/YourUSBFlashDriveName/}"
df -h "$DISK" > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
   diskutil unmountDIsk `diskutil list "$DISK" | grep ^/dev/`
else
   echo Volume $DISK is not mounted...skipping.
fi

#!/bin/bash

# Usage: eject [fullpath to mount point]

DISK="${1:-/Volumes/YourUSBFlashDriveName/}"

df -h "$DISK" > /dev/null 2>&1

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

diskutil unmountDIsk `diskutil list "$DISK" | grep ^/dev/`

else

echo Volume $DISK is not mounted...skipping.

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, bash, cli, Command, Command line, Disk, diskutil, Drive, eject, Flash, howto, List, Mac, macosx, mount, Terminal, tips, umount, unmount, unmountDisk, USB, volume | No comments

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