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Disk Utility

Disk Utility is a system utility included with macOS from Apple that allows users to perform various disk and volume management tasks like formatting, partitioning, verifying integrity, repairing disks, encrypting disks, mounting and unmounting volumes, and more. It has been included with macOS and its predecessors since the early versions of Mac OS X, gradually gaining new features over time while also removing some older features.

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Disk Utility

Disk Utility is a system utility included with macOS from Apple that allows users to perform various disk and volume management tasks like formatting, partitioning, verifying integrity, repairing disks, encrypting disks, mounting and unmounting volumes, and more. It has been included with macOS and its predecessors since the early versions of Mac OS X, gradually gaining new features over time while also removing some older features.

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Disk Utility

Disk Utility

Disk Utility running on OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Operating system macOS

Type Utility

Website support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/welcome/mac 

Disk Utility is a system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks on


the macOS operating system by Apple Inc.

Contents

 1Functions
 2History
 3See also
 4References
 5External links

Functions[edit]
The functions currently supported by Disk Utility include:[1]
 Creation, conversion, backup, compression, and encryption of logical volume
images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility to .dmg or, for
CD/DVD images, .cdr
 Mounting, unmounting and ejecting disk volumes (including both hard
disks, removable media, and disk volume images)
 Enabling or disabling journaling
 Verifying a disk's integrity, and repairing it if the disk is damaged (this will
work for both Mac compatible format partitions and for FAT32 partitions
with Microsoft Windows installed)
 Erasing, formatting, partitioning,[2] and cloning disks
 Secure deletion of free space or disk using a "zero out" data, a 7-pass DOD
5220-22 M standard, or a 35-pass Gutmann algorithm
 Adding or changing partition table between Apple Partition Map, GUID
Partition Table, and master boot record (MBR)
 Restoring volumes from Apple Software Restore (ASR) images
 Checking the S.M.A.R.T. status of a hard disk
Disk Utility functions may also be accessed from the macOS command line with
the  diskutil  and  hdiutil  commands.[3]

History[edit]
In the classic Mac OS, similar functionality to the verification features of Disk Utility
could be found in the Disk First Aid application. Another application called Drive Setup
was used for drive formatting and partitioning and the application Disk Copy was used
for working with disk images.
Before Mac OS X Panther, the functionality of Disk Utility was spread across two
applications: Disk Copy and Disk Utility. Disk Copy was used for creating and mounting
disk image files whereas Disk Utility was used for formatting, partitioning, verifying, and
repairing file structures. The ability to "zero" all data (multi-pass formatting) on a disk
was not added until Mac OS X 10.2.3.[4] Further changes introduced in Mac OS X Tiger,
specifically version 10.4.3, allowed Disk Utility to be used to verify the file structure of
the current boot drive. Mac OS X Leopard added the ability to create, resize, and delete
disk partitions without erasing them, a feature known as live partitioning. In OS X El
Capitan, Disk Utility has a different user interface and lost the abilities to repair
permissions due to obsolescence,[5] create and manage disks formatted as RAID, burn
discs, and multi-pass format internal solid-state drives and encrypted external drives.[6]

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