Tag: disk-utility

134 Why is “/dev/rdisk” about 20 times faster than “/dev/disk” in Mac OS X 2013-08-13T22:26:28.313

58 How do you format a 2 GB SD card to FAT32 (preferably with Disk Utility)? 2013-01-03T17:42:21.690

31 How do I check external USB Drive health? 2010-06-19T03:43:39.377

24 Fix bad blocks on Mac hard disk 2010-06-02T21:52:05.997

20 How can I resolve the error "MediaKit reports partition (map) too small"? 2011-01-15T05:54:19.230

14 Cannot resize OS X partition 2009-11-20T00:38:09.590

14 Shrink a .sparseimage 2011-04-25T14:23:15.200

12 Difference between ISO, MDS & BIN/CUE disk image formats? 2010-10-26T04:14:23.293

10 Equivalent of badblocks on Windows or DOS 2011-09-21T07:24:12.200

9 Create new partition on encrypted volume in OS X Lion 2011-07-25T07:59:57.823

8 Is it possible to change an encrypted volume's password w/o recreating the volume? 2010-08-31T13:20:27.850

8 Why is Disk Utility / diskutil taking so long to zero out data? 2013-11-04T14:12:05.770

8 zpool: pool I/O is currently suspended 2013-12-09T11:53:45.877

7 Disk Utility Restore causes "Could not validate resource - Invalid Argument" 2010-10-07T22:56:17.093

6 How is OS X Disk Utility's secure erase mode in comparison to other commerical secure delete methods/apps? 2009-08-11T22:49:56.010

6 Where is the Disk Utility log? (Mac OS X) 2010-08-04T19:03:09.057

6 Is there a way to make Windows 7 install .iso onto USB drive from OSX? 2011-02-12T02:49:19.553

6 What can I do when I get a "Cannot Allocate Memory" error after restoring a disk image? 2012-07-30T14:47:13.320

6 diskutil rename error: "does not appear to be a valid volume name for its file system" 2014-11-11T20:18:35.867

5 Hard Drive Bad Sector marking utility 2009-09-27T06:46:47.510

5 What causes Mac OS X Permission errors? 2010-04-29T12:32:14.770

5 Are these unrepairable SSD errors indicative of a SSD hardware error? 2014-09-16T10:58:27.517

5 Unlocking FileVault encrypted drive from Terminal (to allow pasting password) 2014-11-02T16:32:45.593

5 What is the equivalent of windirstat for Android for identifying space hogs 2017-10-28T03:15:17.003

4 How to turn off verification after DVD burning on OS X? 2009-12-15T22:58:52.743

4 What are "Missing thread recordng" erros when running fsck -fy? 2010-05-25T01:49:41.293

4 Truecrypt or default Disk Utility on Mac? 2010-07-19T06:24:53.193

4 sdelete alternative on osx 2011-04-27T09:06:37.573

4 Which tool should I use to wipe free space on Windows 7 2011-11-17T22:57:33.777

4 Zerofree never ends. Is it doing anything? 2012-05-27T05:19:19.480

4 I forgot my encrypted disk password on OS X 2013-01-22T01:05:17.890

4 MacBook Air startup disk not found, but verified 2013-05-19T00:53:20.693

4 Getting the diskutil command to work in OSX Mavericks Single User mode 2014-01-07T20:14:41.780

4 Why should we wipe disks multiple times? 2016-01-01T07:03:40.897

4 What is the relationship of await, r_await and w_await in iostat -x command? 2019-01-30T01:41:22.247

4 Partition not shown in Disk Utility 2020-01-13T16:09:00.203

3 Disk Utility Error: Newer Version of Mac OS X needed? 2011-07-04T08:12:49.300

3 windows spanned volume fails after sleep (requires restart) 2011-10-12T23:01:50.447

3 What does the Boot Camp Assistant do to my drive that I can't just do with Disk Utility? 2012-05-28T04:15:13.393

3 Create disk image from flash drive 2012-08-16T17:30:05.817

3 How do you access the contents of a mounted DMG drive mounted through hdiutil and diskmout 2012-09-16T17:37:22.153

3 is there a remote version of KDirStat 2013-03-22T10:34:41.917

3 Create single disk image from drive with multiple partitions 2016-08-27T03:51:24.060

3 Macintosh HD volume reduced after error during Bootcamp Partition 2017-05-31T18:33:29.733

2 Boot/System partition resizer 2009-07-15T08:27:26.983

2 Input/output error using Mac Disk Utility? 2009-09-04T12:10:08.990

2 Why doesn't "Disk Utility.app" recognise my `dd`-copied disk? 2010-02-26T09:34:03.560

2 Is Joerg Schilling’s “sdd” a full replacement for “dd”? 2010-05-11T18:31:31.840

2 windows 2008, Resize partition 2010-07-03T13:26:40.200

2 Flash drive life monitor? 2010-07-07T10:06:12.790

2 OS X Boot extremely slow after installing boot camp (XP) 2010-09-07T23:20:39.477

2 Is there a Mac utility that does low level drive integrity check and repair? 2010-10-14T09:55:13.567

2 diskutil command not found in OS X terminal 2010-11-20T13:01:25.573

2 How do I format the whole disk after using my machine? 2011-02-18T21:15:24.040

2 Mac Disk Utility Undo volume scheme change 2011-03-27T18:42:44.817

2 Boot utilities for 3 TB hard drives 2011-04-04T10:13:12.170

2 Copying a software RAID 1 to a normal SATA II disk 2011-08-20T11:27:19.530

2 Mac OSX Terminal cmd/script to display HDD sectors pending allocation 2011-08-21T23:49:19.160

2 Snow Leopard doesn't repair permissions, despite showing / saying its fixed them? 2011-10-05T08:44:31.993

2 How do I reformat an unmountable/unrecognised/unformatted USB drive? 2011-10-05T16:18:22.677

2 Can I delete any unwanted file or folder in already written CD or DVD? 2011-12-20T13:48:59.193

2 External hard drive only visible in System Profiler, doesn't mount, not visible in Disk Utility (Mac) 2012-02-09T22:19:58.207

2 Is there a utility to create a multi-Windows bootable USB stick? 2012-02-20T22:04:33.460

2 OS X Disk Utility Fails to reformat 2012-03-25T19:41:29.550

2 Is CHKDSK a warning sign of failing drive? 2013-03-29T12:38:42.700

2 Unable to delete or re-partition internal drive using Disk Utility 2013-10-31T17:19:19.310

2 Delete EFI Partition 2013-11-05T00:01:02.900

2 Partition corruption, still can see files in single user mode, would like to retrieve files 2013-12-21T20:56:11.040

2 How to calculate size of a VERY large folder over FTP? 2014-10-28T05:50:54.473

2 Error preparing the Time Machine backup disk 2015-11-24T20:06:15.837

2 How does disk utility show negative disk usage for a USB Drive? 2016-01-31T21:39:41.370

2 format disk with APFS, the new apple file system? 2016-07-05T08:22:42.877

2 WD My Passport can not be formatted on mac 2017-03-07T01:20:10.720

1 What does input/output error mean with Disk Utility 2009-09-04T17:04:03.770

1 Warning while using Disk Utility to verify permissions on Snow Leopard 2009-11-25T02:52:33.820

1 OS X Disk Image across various Apple Hardware 2010-07-20T14:48:20.420

1 How can I turn off journalling on an OS X boot disk? 2010-10-20T17:52:05.317

1 PerfectDisk 11 (Defragmenter): Difference between layout.ini management options 2010-11-26T07:22:43.977

1 After repairing permissions, Mac OS X won't boot 2011-02-05T16:53:07.187

1 System Reserved partition no longer marked as System 2011-03-10T14:46:52.703

1 What is a good, free, windows disk wiping utility similar in functionality to DBAN? 2011-04-25T15:31:08.243

1 Spurious high disk IOrate alerts from remote server 2011-09-30T14:20:53.613

1 Imaging Windows HD with a OS X Disk Utility fails, "Invalid Argument" 2012-02-04T21:31:42.100

1 Magic Number of Linux partitions 2012-02-13T11:06:28.450

1 Accidentally Repartitioned Hard Drive, Possibility of Restoration? 2012-02-19T03:02:00.107

1 Files show up in recovery programs after permanent delete on Mac OS X 2012-03-14T20:07:30.993

1 Failed to boot macbook from Ubuntu USB 2012-04-10T20:12:22.153

1 Automated Clonezilla like backups? 2012-04-26T08:48:48.227

1 USB Drive cannot detect in Windows 7 2012-05-23T14:58:33.950

1 OS X 10.7 and 10.8 continuously going corrupt on several machines, disk unable to repair, requires clean install 2012-08-27T01:42:15.247

1 Frequent Mac lockups due to fsck_hfs 2013-01-28T18:08:42.513

1 Cannot run diskutil, sudo or not 2013-02-25T14:23:41.973

1 I want to reformat my external hard disk but disk utility said it could not be unmounted 2013-03-11T06:18:10.160

1 Mac OS not allowing for disk partition 2013-09-06T11:54:19.300

1 Restoring mac to pre OS install attempt 2013-10-26T22:33:25.593

1 How to make bigger Macintosh HD partition 2013-11-06T13:09:26.017

1 AppleScript shows "Document could not be opened. You don’t have permission." but file can be opened? 2014-03-04T15:56:53.757

1 Use free space on a Mac (with a SSD) 2014-06-20T20:43:20.590

1 Unable to create disk image using disk utility (Input/output error) 2014-07-06T07:52:36.663