Chapter 15

Working with Disks

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Your Mac Pro comes with an internal hard drive, but you can also attach external drives, including hard drives, flash drives, and optical drives. This chapter introduces you to Mac Pro's powerful and useful disk drive tools.

View Hard Drive Free Space

Check Hard Drive Status

Monitor Hard Drive Usage

Verify or Repair Disk Permissions

Repair the Hard Drive

Copy a Hard Drive to a Disk Image

Mount a Disk Image

Burn a Disk Image to a CD or DVD

Partition a Hard Drive

Erase a Hard Drive's Free Space

Erase a Hard Drive

View Hard Drive Free Space

To ensure that your Mac Pro's hard drive does not become full, you should periodically ...

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