man pages section 1: User Commands

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

volcheck(1)

Name

volcheck - checks for media in a drive

Synopsis

volcheck [-v] [-i secs] [-t secs] pathname

Description

The volcheck utility tells volume management to look at each dev/pathname in sequence and determine if new media has been inserted in the drive.

The default action is to volcheck all checkable media managed by volume management.

Options

The following options are supported:

–i secs

Set the frequency of device checking to secs seconds. The default is 2 seconds. The minimum frequency is 1 second.

–t secs

Check the named device(s) for the next secs seconds. The maximum number of seconds allowed is 28800, which is 8 hours. The frequency of checking is specified by –i. There is no default total time.

–v

Verbose.

Operands

The following operands are supported:

pathname

The path name of a media device.

Files

/dev/volctl

volume management control port

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability
system/storage/media-volume-manager

See also

eject(1), rmmount(1M), attributes(5)