NAME

vsdbutil — manipulates the volume status DB.

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

vsdbutil manipulates the volume status DB. The following options are available:

-a

adopts (activates) on-disk ownership on the specified path

-c

checks the status of the ownership usage on the specified path

-d

disowns (deactivates) the on-disk ownership on the specified path

-i

initializes the ownership database to include all mounted HFS+ and APFS volumes

-x

clears the entry associated with the specified path from the database

-h

prints out a simple help message

The vsdbutil command is deprecated; using a volume UUID in fstab(5) is preferred.

FILES

/var/db/volinfo.database

Database of volumes managed via vsdbutil.

SEE ALSO

diskutil(8), mount(8), fstab(5)