Category: disk utility

  • How to Verify & Repair Mac Disk from Command Line

    How to Verify & Repair Mac Disk from Command Line

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Verify & Repair Mac Disk from Command Line The Disk Utility application on MacOS has a command line counterpart, that allows Mac users to run disk maintenance and disk administration tasks, including verifying and repairing disks. There are obvious advantages and benefits to using the command line…

  • How to Determine File System of a Drive on Mac

    How to Determine File System of a Drive on Mac

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Determine File System of a Drive on Mac You may find yourself needing to determine the file system type of a drive connected to a Mac, whether it’s an external hard drive, a USB flash drive, external SSD or HDD, an SD card, or similar. File system…

  • How to Format USB Drive on Mac

    How to Format USB Drive on Mac

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Format USB Drive on Mac Many of us rely on external USB drives and storage devices, whether hard drives or flash drives, to transfer large files and to serve as backups for things like Time Machine. Typically when you buy a new hard drive or USB drive,…

  • How to Repair the Startup Disk on M1 Apple Silicon Macs

    How to Repair the Startup Disk on M1 Apple Silicon Macs

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Repair the Startup Disk on M1 Apple Silicon Macs If you are having any peculiar disk issues or disk errors with an Apple Silicon Mac, you may want to try using the repair tools within Disk Utility, available in Recovery Mode. For those who aren’t aware, Disk…

  • What it is & How to Free It

    What it is & How to Free It

    Go to OSX Daily to read What it is & How to Free It You may find a “Purgeable” storage space when looking at disk storage and disk usage in modern versions of macOS, including Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, Sierra, etc, either within the About This Mac > Storage screen, Disk Utility, or the Storage…

  • How to Make a Disk Image from DVD / CD on Mac

    How to Make a Disk Image from DVD / CD on Mac

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Make a Disk Image from DVD / CD on Mac Need to make a disk image from a CD or DVD right on a Mac? Many Mac users continue to have and use DVD and CD media, whether it’s movie collections, proofs, music collections, files and data…

  • How to Create a New Partition in macOS

    How to Create a New Partition in macOS

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Create a New Partition in macOS Want to create a new partition on a Mac hard disk? Then read on! As both internal and external storage solutions continue to grow in capacity, the time might come where you want an easy way to split them into multiple…