hdik(8) 						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						   hdik(8)

NAME

     hdik -- lightweight tool to attach and mount disk images in-kernel

SYNOPSIS

     hdik imagefile [options]
     hdik -e device

DESCRIPTION

     hdik is a simple tool that can be used to attach disk images directly to the DiskImages driver.  The end result is functionally similar to
     passing -kernel to hdiutil(1)'s attach verb.  hdik does not rely upon the presence of DiskImages or other high-level frameworks.

     The DiskImages driver only supports a selection of disk image formats: UDRW, UDRO, UDZO, ULFO, SPARSE (UDSP).  It also supports shadow files.
     hdiutil(1)'s imageinfo verb indicates whether a particular image is kernel compatible.

     hdik requires root access to perform its functions.

     In the first form, an image to attach must be provided:

     imagefile	 path to the disk image file to attach.

     In its second form, hdik issues an eject command to the specified device.	The argument is the full device node path (e.g.  /dev/disk2). Any
     volumes mounted from the device must be unmounted first, or the command will fail.  See umount(8).

OPTIONS

     -shadow [shadowfile]
		 Use a shadow file in conjunction with the data in the image.  This option prevents modification of the original image and allows
		 read-only images to be used as read/write images.  When blocks are being read from the image, blocks present in the shadow file
		 override blocks in the base image.  When blocks are being written, the writes will be redirected to the shadow file.  If not
		 specified, -shadow defaults to <imagename>.shadow.  If the shadow file does not exist, it is created.

     -nomount	 Suppress automatic mounting of filesystems contained within the image.  This will result in /dev entries being created, but will
		 not mount any volumes.

     -drivekey keyname=value
		 Specify a key/value pair for the IOHDIXHDDrive object created (shows up in the IOKit registry of devices which is viewable with
		 ioreg(8)).

SEE ALSO

     hdiutil(1), diskarbitrationd(8), diskutil(8), umount(8), ioreg(8)

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