I am attempting to run Disk Utility scan on an exterior drive. Disk Utility reviews the drive is in use. lsof reveals that it’s.
% sudo lsof /Volumes/mydrive
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
mds 1233 root 6r DIR 1,24 1020 2 /Volumes/mydrive
mds 1233 root 20r DIR 1,24 3468 2886959 /Volumes/mydrive/.Highlight-V100/Retailer-V2/01234578-9012-3456-7890-123456789012
% sudo kill -9 1233
Nonetheless, I can not get to Disk Utility quick sufficient earlier than mds will get began once more. Mac OS 14.1 on an M2 Mini.
How do I run a Disk Utility scan?
For reference:
% man mds | cat
MDS(8) System Supervisor's Handbook MDS(8)
NAME
mds – metadata server
SYNOPSIS
mds
DESCRIPTION
mds is the metadata server. It serves all shoppers of the metadata APIs,
together with Highlight.
There are not any configurations to mds, and customers shouldn't run mds
manually.
SEE ALSO
mdfind(1), mdls(1), mdutil(1)
Mac OS X January 19, 2006 Mac OS X
edit: I did verify System Preferences, however I do not see any strategy to disable Highlight or the metadata server solely. Unchecking choices for what Highlight ought to search would not appear to vary how Highlight works, anyway. Net searches on how one can disable Highlight discover outcomes that principally are fairly previous, say it is a actually dangerous concept to do it, or each.
