Managing Disks and Volumes

You can get all of the functionality presently available in Disk Utility through two commands accessible from the command line:

• hdiutil, which handles disk-image management

• diskutil, which includes the rest of the features

You can read the man pages to learn how to use the different features, or you can type the command at the command line, and the different options you can use will appear.

You can also use the df and du commands to determine free space and space utilization on a volume.