.Dd December 19, 2001 .Dt VSDBUTIL 8 .Os Darwin .Sh NAME .Nm vsdbutil .Nd manipulates the volume status DB. .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl a Ar path .Pp .Nm .Op Fl c Ar path .Op Fl d Ar path .Op Fl i .Pp .Nm .Op Fl h .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm manipulates the volume status DB. The following options are available: .Bl -tag -width -indent .It Fl a adopts (activates) on-disk ownership on the specified path .It Fl c checks the status of the ownership usage on the specified path .It Fl d disowns (deactivates) the on-disk ownership on the specified path .It Fl i initializes the ownership database to include all mounted HFS+ and APFS volumes .It Fl h prints out a simple help message .El .Pp The .Nm command is deprecated; using a volume UUID in .Xr fstab 5 is preferred. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/Users/joeuser/Library/really_long_file_name" -compact .It Pa /var/db/volinfo.database Database of volumes managed via .Nm . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr diskutil 8 , .Xr mount 8 , .Xr fstab 5