Normally Spotlight tries not to index network volumes, but it's not  
documented (a) how it detects that a volume is a network volume, or  
(b) what it does if there is already an index on the volume, for  
example when you are mounting an entire volume from another computer.  
Perhaps Amit knows?

Anyway, you can use mdutil to check the status and manually disable  
indexing:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ 
man1/mdutil.1.html

# Check the status
% sudo mdutil -s /Volumes/MyDisk
/Volumes/MyDisk:
         Status: Indexing Enabled

# Turn indexing off
% sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/MyDisk
/Volumes/MyDisk:
         Indexing disabled for volume.

drew



On Aug 3, 2007, at 9:53 AM, p wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> i'm resource constrained on my laptop, and mounting via sshfs remote
> disk really helps a lot, but is the a way to prevent sportlight
> indexing of these.
> If not, how to completly disable Spotlight?
>
> thx
>
>
> >

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