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Disk Utility can’t resize APFS disk images, but hdiutil can

Want to increase the size of a disk image in APFS? If you’re relying on Disk Utility to do it, you’re out of luck. But here’s how to do this at the command line instead.

March 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

Should you add a new APFS Container or Volume?

Adding volumes in APFS is quick and simple. But why would you ever want to add a container to a disk? An exploration of their differences, and when containers are useful.

March 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Re-installing macOS: clean or what?

Should you install, re-install, or clean (re-)install macOS? Why, how to, and what they entail.

March 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

Disk Utility 18.0 (Mojave): Not exactly the truth

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Disk Utility claims to perform secure erase on SSDs, but does no such thing. Here are workarounds to do what it doesn’t, and details of a bug preventing encryption of APFS volumes.

December 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Cleaning up sensitive files: How to sanitise storage

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Can you trust Disk Utility to securely erase hard drives and SSDs? How to prepare your Mac’s internal storage before selling it, so you don’t give your bank details away with it. And much more.

December 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Panics, Pegasus, and Recovery

I was replying to a tweet when the display suddenly went black. Was my iMac Pro dead, or just auto-rebooting after a kernel panic, and why?

December 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Repairing permissions diagrammed

Why might we want to repair permissions, and how does it differ now from what is used to be? As shown in a clear diagram.

September 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Insights through a vulnerability

High Sierra 10.13.4 may have stopped leakage of APFS encryption passphrases, but that is only a small part of an accident chain going back many years.

April 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Encryption passphrases are still left in logs: how Apple abuses its unified log

I wrote yesterday that macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 finally fixes the leakage of APFS encryption passphrases into the […]

March 31, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 fixes APFS encryption password disclosure bug

The latest update to High Sierra, bringing it to 10.13.4, does fix the bug discovered by Sarah Edwards […]

March 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

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