Disk Utility
Disk Utility is the name of a utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X.
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disk utility is the name of a utility created by apple for performing diskrelated tasks in mac os x. these tasks include:
the creation, conversion, compression and encryption of disk images from a wide range of formats read by disk utility to .dmg or, for cd/dvd images, .cdr; mounting, unmounting, and ejecting disks (including both hard disks, removable media and disk 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 fat32 partitions with microsoft windows installed); verifying and repairing permissions; disk erasing, formatting, partitioning and cloning; secure deletion of free space or disk using a "zero out" data, a 7pass dod 522022 m standard, or a 35pass gutmann algorithm adding or changing partition table between apple partition table, guid partition table, and master boot record (mbr); creating, destroying, merging, and repairing raid sets; restoring volumes from apple software restore (asr) images; burning disk images to cd or dvd in hfs+ format; erasing cdrws and dvdrws; checking the s.m.a.r.t status of a hard disk.
Links to official Disk Utility sites
Features
Disk Cloning Disk Imaging Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Mounting drives
Categories
Productivity Utilities Security Backup and Sync System and Hardware Burn and Rip
Tags
disk-cloning disk-imaging partitioning disk-recovery s.m.a.r.t hard-disk-utility mounting-drives disk-backup mount-image burning disk-erase disk-management
