tldr/osx/diskutil.md

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diskutil

Utility to manage local disks and volumes

  • List all currently available disks, partitions and mounted volumes.

diskutil list

  • Repair permissions on a volume

diskutil repairPermissions {{/Volumes/Name}}

  • Repair the file system data structures of a volume

diskutil repairVolume {{/dev/diskX}}

  • Unmount a volume

diskutil unmountDisk {{/dev/diskX}}

  • Eject a CD/DVD (unmount first)

diskutil eject {{/dev/disk1}}