I have a virtual disk of 1 GB, on which I want to create two volumes of 400 MB. With diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk0 2 GPT APFS VOLUME1 400M APFS VOLUME2 400M it created one APFS container of 400 MB and another one of 600 MB. How can…
Lees meerI have a virtual disk of 1 GB, on which I want to create two volumes of 400 MB. With diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk0 2 GPT APFS VOLUME1 400M APFS VOLUME2 400M it created one APFS container of 400 MB and another one of 600 MB. How can…
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Lees meerWith this command diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk0 2 GPT APFS VOLUME1 400M APFS VOLUME2 400M it created one APFS container of 400 MB and another one of 600 MB. (The identifier disk0 represents 1 GB virtual disk created to test the com…
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Lees meerI'm writing a post on a Stack Exchange site from Safari on my iPhone 14 under iOS 17.4. I'd like to include a photo in my post. I tap the Image button in the SE editor and then tap Browse, then Take Photo from the resulting popup menu.…
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Lees meerI use MacBook Air (M1, 16GB, 2020). Today I updated the macbook to macOS Ventura 13.6.5. After the update, The computer boots up and I can login to it. The CPU usage is 1% (i.e. 99% idle) and the RAM usage is 5GB (i.e. 11GB available)…
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