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Excluding some drives from search
I have a large, slow, external disk array used for backup purposes. My backups run overnight, finishing around 03:00 but something is keeping the drives busy through the day. I suspect indexing, though it could also be internal housekeeping on the device. The noise is a distraction...
I'm turning off indexing as an experiment, but I suspect this will make system-wide searches incredibly slow.
Is there any way to default the search to exclude this device (the search would nearly always find the target on my fast drives, so no point finding copies on the backup media).
In other words, can I specify that a search will scan only indexed devices?
A related question: Is there a simple way to monitor the origin of all I/O to a particular drive? Then I'd know why it was busy.