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10.4: Disable Spotlight on a FAT32 external drive
Authored by: Coumerelli on Aug 16, '06 08:34:21AM
Maybe I'm missing somethe (specific to FAT32 or NTFS) but when I want to stop the indexing and delete it, I go to the terminal and type:
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/"drive name"/
(quotes around drive name if there are special characters or spaces)

then
sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/"drive name"/
These two commands together seem to work like a champ for me.

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