diskarbitrationd(8)

diskarbitrationd8

Disk arbitration daemon

Usage

diskarbitrationd [-d]

Overview

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. This command is not intended to be invoked directly.

Options:

-d

Report detailed information in /var/log/diskarbitrationd.log.

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
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.diskarbitrationd.plist

Releases

145 releases since Mac OS X 10.3; the text changed 7 times.

  1. 10.3–10.3.9
  2. 10.4–10.4.11
  3. 10.5–10.5.8
  4. 10.6–10.6.8
  5. 10.7–10.8.1
  6. 10.8.2–10.8.5
  7. 10.9–10.10.5
  8. 10.11–26.5

From DiskArbitration 535.120.1.0.1 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.