commands.sh

diskutil

macos

Utility to manage local disks and volumes. Some subcommands such as `partitiondisk` have their own usage documentation.

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Subcommands (1)

diskutil partitionDisk

Utility to manage partitions inside disks and volumes. Part of `diskutil`. APM is only supported for macOS, MBR is optimized for DOS, while GPT is compatible for most modern systems.

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Examples (4)

List all currently available disks, partitions, and mounted volumes

diskutil list

Repair the filesystem data structures of a volume

diskutil repairVolume /dev/disk

Unmount a volume

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk

Eject a CD/DVD (unmount first)

diskutil eject /dev/diskX
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