Name

diskarbitrationd - disk arbitration daemon

Synopsis

diskarbitrationd [-d]

Description

diskarbitrationd listens for connections from clients, notifies clients of the appearance of disks and filesystems, and governs the mounting of filesystems and the claiming of disks amongst clients.

diskarbitrationd is accessed via the Disk Arbitration framework.

Options:

-d

Report detailed information in /var/log/diskarbitrationd.log. This option forces diskarbitrationd to run in the foreground.

The file /etc/fstab is consulted for user-defined mount points, indexed by filesystem, in the mount point determination for a filesystem. Each filesystem can be identified by its UUID or by its label, using the constructs ``UUID'' or ``LABEL'', respectively. For example:

UUID=DF000C7E-AE0C-3B15-B730-DFD2EF15CB91 /export ufs

ro

UUID=FAB060E9-79F7-33FF-BE85-E1D3ABD3EDEA none

hfs rw,noauto

LABEL=The\040Volume\040Name\040Is\040This none

msdos ro

Files

/etc/fstab
/var/log/diskarbitrationd.log
/var/run/diskarbitrationd.pid

See Also

fstab(5)

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