This article explains how to disable indexing of the contents of binary files such as PDFs and Office documents which reduces index growth going forward. If you perform a reindex on the disabled indexes, it reduces the overall index size.
If your overall objective is to reduce the amount of disk space consumed by indexes, then follow these extra steps:
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Follow this article for how to monitor indexing.
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Run an Offline Tar Compaction.
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If you have a datastore, then run Datastore Garbage Collection.
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