So far as I can tell, there is nothing in the properties dictionary for the volume which differentiates a user volume from the VM/recovery/preboot volumes. Depending on the names is -- risky. It is doubtful you'd want to prevent a user from naming his volume by the same name.
Is there a supported way to differentiate?
The answer I've found is the IORegistryService properties dictionary has 1) an automount flag set to 0 for the support volumes (default/unspecified appears to be 1) and 2) there is a roles array for the support volumes.
… there is nothing in the properties dictionary …
What properties dictionary are we talking about here? What API are you working with?
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let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"The answer I've found is the IORegistryService properties dictionary has 1) an automount flag set to 0 for the support volumes (default/unspecified appears to be 1) and 2) there is a roles array for the support volumes.
The disk arbitration property dictionary is not very useful, but that is where I was looking, Quinn.
Thanks for answering. I added what I found below, if I'm interpreting this incorrectly I'd appreciate a correction.
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Jim