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Ventura volume layout

Updated charts of containers and volumes on boot volume groups for Ventura, with details of cryptexes and what they do.

October 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to make more use of your backup disk

APFS backup disks offer different possibilities for adding volumes for your own use, alongside the backup volume. How do you decide what’s best?

May 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Boot disk layout in macOS Monterey

In Monterey, these haven’t changed much since Big Sur. However, those small differences are significant, particularly on M1 Macs.

December 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Disk free space

Confused by this on APFS? So you should be, as it’s complicated by features like snapshots, sparse files, and the file system itself. There’s no single figure.

December 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

Juggling with HFS+ and APFS partitions and volumes: a primer

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The differences between HFS+ and APFS volumes explored. What a container is, and how to add new HFS+ and APFS volumes to a disk.

October 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Intricacies of the boot disk

Boot disk volume layout is intricate in Big Sur. M1 Macs lose the EFI partition on their internal SSDs and gain two more for APFS. Contents of /System/Volumes has also changed.

January 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Wrangling file paths in Catalina and Big Sur

Volume layouts are fairly straightforward until you have two or more bootable systems with Volume Groups. Details and advice for those with macOS 10.15 or 11.

November 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

Mints now provides better volume info, and looks at task scheduling

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Adds a new log view of background task scheduling and dispatch, greatly improves volume info, and fixes a rare crash.

October 12, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Inside the file system: 4 Summary and references

Disk structure diagrammed for comparison, from the partition table, to HFS+ and APFS volumes, with further references.

October 10, 2020 Macs, Technology

Inside the file system: 3 APFS containers and volumes

What you need to know about the APFS file system, its containers and volumes, so you can understand errors and how to repair them.

October 8, 2020 Macs, Technology

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