VSDBUTIL(8)

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💅 VSDBUTIL(8) — volume status DB bestie 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the VSDBUTIL(8) page from the System Manager's Manual. This is your girl vsdbutil, and her whole job is manipulating the volume status DB. That's the vibe ✨.

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

vsdbutil [-a path]

vsdbutil [-c path] [-d path] [-i]

vsdbutil [-h]

No cap, that's the exact shape 🫶.

💖 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
🚨 heads up bestie: the vsdbutil command is deprecated. Using a volume UUID in fstab(5) is preferred. That's not me being dramatic, that's literally the page. So maybe take the fstab(5) route, iykyk 💀.

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /var/db/volinfo.database — Database of volumes managed via vsdbutil.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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

Darwin is the source/version on this iconic little page, dated December 19, 2001, and it's filed under VSDBUTIL(8) — periodt 💋✨🦋

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