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Disk Utility User Guide
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Table of Contents
Welcome
Overview
Intro to Disk Utility
View all devices or only volumes
File system formats
Partition schemes
Get detailed information about a disk
Manage physical disks and volumes
Add, delete, or erase APFS volumes
Erase and reformat a storage device
Encrypt and protect a storage device with a password
Partition a physical disk
View APFS snapshots
Format a disk for Windows computers
Repair a storage device
Restore a disk
Store data on disk images
Create a disk image
Convert a disk image to another format
Resize a disk image
Restore a disk image to a disk
Set up and manage RAID disk sets
Overview of creating disk sets
Create a disk set
Delete a disk set
Unmount a disk set or disk member
Repair a disk in a mirrored disk set
Add a disk to a disk set
If a disk in a disk set on Mac fails or is missing
Troubleshooting
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