Newbie asks: Should i stop Tracker for a games partition and how?

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Hi Experts,

so i learned via YouTube (reliable???) that Tracker shall be a thing in Linux causing performance degradation. Tracker shall be an Indexer, which costs the more performance the more files are there for indexing.

So me thinking (or similar):

  1. Do i need files being indexed for Linux to work?
    1.1. Do i need game files to be indexed for functioning?

If the answer to both is a “no”, then it may be a good idea to exclude my gaming partition (used only by a steam library) from the Tracker job.

In that case comes the question:

  1. Which service in Suse Leap 15.5 is actually doing the Tracker job?
  2. How can i setup an exclude command for that service?
  3. What would be the notation for excluding the path “/mnt/5ea7d743-4db1-44e2-b748-91b797c986c7” from that service?

Happy to learn. Fair chance that my thoughts completely miss the point.

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The answer to both is “NO”, but some apps may not work if relevant files aren’t indexed (for instance, Gnome Music won’t work if the ~/Music folder is not indexed).
Since you ask about Tracker you are using the Gnome desktop?
If so, go to Settings > Search panel > Search Locations
For further details you may check
https://tracker.gnome.org/faq/#how-can-i-control-what-tracker-indexes

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Thank you. That link is brilliant. Appreciated.

I myself may keep my hands off for the time being since i am too new in this business for messing around in root.

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