1.Dd December 19, 2001
2.Dt VSDBUTIL 8
3.Os Darwin
4.Sh NAME
5.Nm vsdbutil
6.Nd manipulates the volume status DB.
7.Sh SYNOPSIS
8.Nm
9.Op Fl a Ar path
10.Pp
11.Nm
12.Op Fl c Ar path
13.Op Fl d Ar path
14.Op Fl i
15.Pp
16.Nm
17.Op Fl h
18.Sh DESCRIPTION
19.Nm
20manipulates the volume status DB.
21The following options are available:
22.Bl -tag -width -indent
23.It Fl a
24adopts (activates) on-disk ownership on the specified path
25.It Fl c
26checks the status of the ownership usage on the specified path
27.It Fl d
28disowns (deactivates) the on-disk ownership on the specified path
29.It Fl i
30initializes the ownership database to include all mounted HFS+ volumes
31.It Fl h
32prints out a simple help message
33.El
34.Pp
35The
36.Nm
37command is deprecated; using a volume UUID in
38.Xr fstab 5
39is preferred.
40.Sh FILES
41.Bl -tag -width "/Users/joeuser/Library/really_long_file_name" -compact
42.It Pa /var/db/volinfo.database
43Database of volumes managed via
44.Nm .
45.El
46.Sh SEE ALSO
47.Xr diskutil 8 ,
48.Xr mount 8 ,
49.Xr fstab 5
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