![]() ![]() There’s another entry that represents the whole disk. That’s obviously for a specific partition on a disk. Here’s the kind of information it might have about your startup volume:ĭAMediaContent = "48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC" ĬFBundleIdentifier = "" This text file stores the setting of the “Ignore ownership of this volume” flag that you see in Finder.ĭisk Arbitration will also give you information about all the disks and volumes on the system. The other file it looks at is /var/db/volinfo.database. By making the appropriate change to this file, you can, amongst other things, stop a volume from being automatically mounted. The shipped version (in Leopard) has some examples in the comments of /etc/fstab and the man page looks pretty good. There are a couple of files that it looks at to tell it what to do. Things like Spotlight use it to know when to stop indexing a volume when you want to unmount a volume and you should use it too if you’re writing a similar application. It was a private framework in Panther (10.3) but was made public in Tiger (10.4). To use Disk Arbitration from within your application, you need to link to the Disk Arbitration framework. ![]() The source code for it and related things can be found on the Open Source part of Apple’s site. You’ll then get /var/log/diskarbitrationd.log.ĭiskarbitrationd is the main daemon that’s responsible for all this stuff. You can get more debug by hacking the file in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons and adding the -d flag to the argument list. ![]() You can see some of these notifications flying around by using disktool with the undocumented -y flag. It’s not actually enforced: you could still force a volume to be unmounted and claiming a disk for exclusive use doesn’t stop anyone else from using it (like advisory file locks). For each of those operations you can also approve or reject requests that other applications make. Using Disk Arbitration, you can send requests to eject disks, mount and unmount volumes, rename volumes and you can claim a disk for exclusive use. It will then ask filesystem plugins if they recognise the volume and if they do it will usually proceed to mount them. When you insert a disk, the kernel will instantiate drivers for it and notify the Disk Arbitration daemon. Then, the utility should repair the disk, or at least, mount a Preview disk (DiskWarrior), allowing you to inspect and even copy or backup some files or the full disk, reformat it and restore it.Disk Arbitration is what is used on the Mac to handle automatic mounting of volumes and various other disk related things. This allows the repair utility to handle the damaged disk properly (mounting it once repaired). Deactivate Disk Arbitrator (uncheck the Activated box). The damaged disk should show now and it should not crash the repair utility.Ĥ. Open Disk Arbitrator and select "Activated - Block mounts." This prevents the damaged disk from crashing the repair utilities and allows such disks to be displayed by these utilities.ģ. Yet, there is a trick to repair such broken disks using Disk Arbitrator.ġ. Some damaged disks do not show up with Disk Utility and DiskWarrior, and may hang and crash such repair utilities.
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