volumes is far from all that Disk Utility can do. You can use it to partition a hard drive, or on an APFS drive create containers (see Partitions, Volumes, Containers opposite). Disk Utility can also create and manage Disk Images — a file that contains both the structure and contents of a volume or an entire storage device. When physical media was more commonly used, disk images were useful for making
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Sep 13, 2022
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