What com.apple.diskspaced service does?

Question

What is the purpose of com.apple.diskspaced? What this service does exactly?

$ launchctl list com.apple.diskspaced
{
    "EnableTransactions" = true;
    "LimitLoadToSessionType" = "Aqua";
    "MachServices" = {
        "com.apple.diskspaced" = mach-port-object;
    };
    "Label" = "com.apple.diskspaced";
    "TimeOut" = 30;
    "OnDemand" = true;
    "LastExitStatus" = 9;
    "PID" = 96227;
    "Program" = "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/StorageManagement.framework/Resources/diskspaced";
};

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '16 at 20:37

I think this service check your available disk space. If you have less than N% (~5%) of your HDD it will show a notification.

Until macOS Sierra this notification could be silenced by selecting (Don't show this again) but on macOS Sierra you no longer have this option.

I have 2% left on my HDD and I had to manually remove (Activity Monitor -> Quit) this daemon so I don't get this annoying notification.

I have searched for a decent way to stop this notification but I think there is only this solution.

Hope this help.

I've already tried to do launchctl stop com.apple.diskspaced, but the notification didn't stop, so this service could be not responsible for the HDD notifications. See also: Silencing “Your disk is almost full” notification — kenorb, Dec 12 '16 at 20:40

What com.apple.diskspaced service does?

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