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For example you have a USB stick and you want to create a newfs on it, it is usefull to know the drive name of that USB drive. Or you want to erase it with DD. There's a tool from command line for drive management called diskutil: To list your drives: diskutil list Your output of the command might be something like this: using diskutil to list installed drives /dev/disk0#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.2 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: *4.0 GB disk1 You can use diskutil for other tasks like mounting a disk, erasing a disk, eject, verify, etc. |
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