Apple's built-in disk management utility for the mac. Erases, formats, and restores volumes and drives.
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Is it safe to reformat drive during Recovery Mode install?
I've inherited an almost brand new 13" Macbook Pro Retina. I'd like wipe the hard drive clean and start with a fresh install of Mountain Lion. I've done this a million times before... but never while ...
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Can I “restore” an iso image to my hdd to be bootable?
I removed my superdrive a while back but now I want to install a linux partition on my macbook. I installed rEFInd as my boot manager but now I need to boot into the arch linux iso. Normally I would ...
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Image files made with Disk Utility creates parent folder
I'm using OS X 10.5.8., updated from 10.5.2. which I installed from the two installation DVDs that came with my MB404 MacBook.
I recently found my original 10.5.2. installation DVDs, which I thought ...
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How to mount Linux_RAID on osx
I have a NAS that broke and it used linu_RAID as its format type. How do I mount this in OSX?
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Hard Drive Preview / Disk Utility Used Space Discrepancy? [duplicate]
So I recently cleared a lot of space off of my hard drive as a sort of "spring cleaning," and I got it down to less than 40GB, but my computer doesn't seem to agree with itself on that. If I look at ...
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Disk Utility Hangs (10.8) and Will Not Load [closed]
What drive are you talking about here, an external one? What operation are you doing with Disk Utility and what exactly is the error message you are getting? Why do you think the log extract is ...
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How to auto-run disk repair on OS X after each system crash?
How to auto-run disk repair on OS X 10.8+ after each system crash?
Note: I am not looking for a manual solution.
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Replace a failed disk in a Disk Utility RAID 1
I have LaCie 2big thunderbolt 2-disk device configured as a RAID1 from Disk Utility. One of the drives appears as "failed", so I unmounted the raid, replaced the drive and plugged it all back in.
Now ...
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Fix slow startup after utility disk repair on a SSD
I have a 250Gb Samsung SSD 840 series with Trim support enabled installed on a mid-2009 13" Macbook pro running Snow Leopard (10.6.8, 2.26GHz, 8Gb of RAM) and I experience extremely slow startup after ...
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diskutil coreStorage in Lion fails to create a concatenated LVG, error -69886
I would like to create a logical volume group (LVG) with two physical disks.
Issue
The command:
diskutil coreStorage create LVGNAME /dev/disk1 /dev/disk2
returns:
Started CoreStorage ...
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How to repair external hard drive that fails diskutil with 'Disk Full Error'
If I run fsck_hfs -y -d /dev/rdisk2s10 it putters along, rebuilds the catalog B-tree then fails when writing the new catalog to disk.
bash-3.2# fsck_hfs -d -y /dev/rdisk2s10
** /dev/rdisk2s10
Using ...
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Erasing partition doesn't give me free diskspace
I'm using a Macbook Air and until today I had two partitions on it (not counting the restore partition). I had my OSX partition and an Ubuntu partition.
As I don't use Ubuntu anymore, I decided to ...
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Unable to adjust partition of USB drive with Mountain Lion Disk Utility
I have a 500 GB USB drive, which I once partitioned into two parts: one encrypted—Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted), and the other not—Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Now I want to change the ...
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Disk Utility: Incorrect number of file hard links
I'm running Mountain Lion on my Mid 2009 MBP. Recently(for last few months) it's acting really slow. Simplest actions are taking forever to perform. So I verified disk using the Disk Utility and it ...
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How do I force a partition and format on a USB key in OS X Mountain Lion Disk Utility or from CLI diskutil?
I have a brand new Memorex TravelDrive 64GB USB disk which is being troublesome.
It's formatted FAT16 on MBR, which is not so nice, and I'd like to put it on HFS+.
I've tried to do this through ...
