mdutil — Manage the metadata stores used by Spotlight for indexing. More information: <https://keith.github.i

Show the indexing status of the startup volume

mdutil -s {{/}}

Turn on/off the Spotlight indexing for a given volume

mdutil -i {{on|off}} {{path/to/volume}}

Turn on/off indexing for all volumes

mdutil -a -i {{on|off}}

Erase the metadata stores and restart the indexing process

mdutil -E {{path/to/volume}}