Understanding mdutil also known as man mdutil

NAME
mdutil — manage the metadata stores used by Spotlight

SYNOPSIS
mdutil [-pEsav] [-i on | off] mountPoint …

DESCRIPTION
The mdutil command is useful for managing the metadata stores for mounted volumes.

The following options are available:
-p Spotlight caches indexes of some network devices locally. This option requests that a local caches be flushed to the appro-
 priate network device.
-E This flag will cause each local store for the volumes indicated to be erased. The stores will be rebuilt if appropriate.
-i on | off
 Sets the indexing status for the provided volumes to on or off. Note that indexing may be delayed due to low disk space or
 other conditions.
-s Display the indexing status of the listed volumes.
-a Apply command to all volumes.
-v Print verbose information when available.

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