You’re in a rush to eject an external disk, but the Finder tells you it’s in use by unnamed apps. What should you do next, and what has Sloth to do with it?
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Exactly what is the disk shown in the Finder named Macintosh HD, in Big Sur and later versions of macOS? An exploration of the structure of the modern boot disk.
From late 2012 until 2021, Apple sold many iMacs and Mac minis with Fusion Drives. Did they really offer the best of both worlds, and why have they gone now?
Many of us keep an emergency external drive at the ready by our Mac, in case we need to use it to recover from problems. What’s the equivalent for Apple silicon?
When the Finder works out how much space is available on disk, what does it count as being “purgeable”? The answer may surprise you.
Update adds a 22nd tool, to display a log extract tailored to examining the mounting of APFS disks. Also valuable for any APFS investigation.
It depends whether you’re going to boot macOS from it, on the space required for snapshots, and how large they could become. And there’s more.
Apple wants us to run our Macs at Full Security and not use third-party kernel extensions, but refuses to build S.M.A.R.T. access into USB in macOS.
All disks cache data to be written, which makes benchmarking them tricky. It has more serious consequences which macOS tries to allow for in file systems and backups.
In Monterey, these haven’t changed much since Big Sur. However, those small differences are significant, particularly on M1 Macs.
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