Update- Disabling tracker also disables Samba. This is needed by my Xerox Versalink C405 printer for scanning documents directly from the printer to my Linux machine.
A note on the Versalink C405. I have owned a number of printers, mostly HP, and this Xerox printer outperforms every other printer that I have ever owned. I would never buy HP again.
Tracker is a background Linux task that catalogues your disk. It can be a disk hog. To disable it, do the following.
- Copy the autostart file and override it with a user-specific one:
$ cp /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop ~/.config/autostart/tracker-store.desktop
and append to it:
Hidden=true
(The same step also applies fortracker’s friends, such astracker-miner-fs, etc.) - Mask (which is the strongest yet nondestructive way to “disable” a static systemd service completely [4]) all
tracker-related services:
$ systemctl --user mask tracker-store
Thanks to https://www.soimort.org/notes/171103/ for this information.