Disk-Arbitrator
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aburgh
A Mac OS X forensic utility which manages file system mounting in support of forensic procedures.
So on inserting a USB thumb drive containing a LVM physical drive, macOS wants to sort of mount it. "Mount" probably the wrong word, but there they are in Disk...
When Disk-Arbitrator is active, no auto-mounts can take place. So far so good. But: I have TimeMachine automatic backups activated, and so TimeMachine complains loudly every 30 minutes, because the...
This is a feature request, rather than a bug... But still an issue. I like to have the "Disks Window" open all the time when working with external devices, but...
In 10.13.6 only the first drive mounts as Read-Only. Subsequent drives mount as read-write. You must deactivate and reactivate for the next drive to mount properly.
Hmm... I remember using Disk Arbitrator more than a year ago and it seemed to work w/o problems. I'm now using it on 10.11.6 - mode "Read-only", Activated, and whenever...
Disk-Arbitrator can be in three states: - Deactivated - Activated; new disks mounted read-only - Activated; new disks not mounted Problem: this is only shown as icon color, not in...
I've noticed, that mounting always happens only after the second time I've selected Mount -> Mount. After the first press nothing happens. And is it possible to remember last Mounting...
Would it be possible to have Disk Arbitrator ask for admin privileges when deactivating to mount a disk?
For some users (myself included), Disk Arbitrator is left intentionally activated most of the time. A typical process then becomes temporarily disabling it when mounting a disk, mounting a .dmg-image...
Self explanatory I think? e.g. `20170201-211021 /dev/rdisk4 denied mount access`
