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Disable Auto-Mount
You can temporarily disable automount by doing as root [1]:
$ rcdbus stop
Fast Copy
Using Netcat
When copying a directory that contains a lot of small files (like 1000+ files <1kB), it is faster to actually generate a tarball of the directory and have it unpacked on the fly on the destination server [2]:
# On DESTINATION box, launch first the listener
nc -l -p 2342 | tar -C /target/dir -xzf -
#On SOURCE box, launch the sender
tar -cz /source/dir | nc Target_Box 2342
Fast Search
Use locate to find files rapidly by their names. locate is very lightweight (hardly notice it's running) and very efficient. It works for any file in any local file system.
For more powerful search (searching in file content), try software like Recoll, Beagle, Google Desktop, ... See Linux Software.
Other
See here