vsdbutil(8)

vsdbutil8

Manipulates the volume status db.

Usage

vsdbutil [-a path]

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

vsdbutil [-h]

Overview

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.

Releases

115 releases since Mac OS X 10.5; the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10.5–10.6.8
  2. 10.7–10.8.5
  3. 10.9–10.12.6
  4. 10.13–13.2
  5. 13.3–26.5

-x since macOS 13.3.

From diskdev_cmds 757 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.