macos – Highlight (mds) stopping unmounting exterior drive to run Disk Utility scan

I am attempting to run Disk Utility scan on an exterior drive. Disk Utility studies 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’t 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 Guide                     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 solution 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 easy methods to disable Highlight discover outcomes that mainly are fairly previous, say it is a actually dangerous concept to do it, or each.