How to tell whether someone has been eating the (APFS) porridge on one of your disks, using Get Info and DiskUtility’s First Aid. And a surprise hidden volume from 3 years ago.
macOS 11
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.
How large were Sonoma’s updates? How many were unscheduled patches? Why were there no RSRs? What does Sequoia hold in store?
You can disable its checks of scheduling, and it better analyses Speed in Big Sur, and backups in macOS 11-14.
Which single folder in /System/Library contains the most bundles? Why did the number of kernel extensions in macOS soar from 535 to 788 in less than 2 months?
Big Sur ended up with a total of 50 GB of updates on Apple silicon Macs. While Ventura did much better, its smallest update was still just under 2 GB. Now Sonoma is doing much better.
For older articles about previous versions of OS X, see this article macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple […]
We even used to use it to defrag free space on a disk: clone the volume to another disk, and clone it back again. Why is cloning becoming so hard now?
Apple has just released security updates for Monterey, to bring it to version 12.6.9, and Big Sur, to […]
Apple has released the update to bring macOS Ventura to version 13.5, and security updates for Monterey 12.6.8 […]
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