Disk Utility User Guide

• 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
  • Initialize 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
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Copyright and trademarks