Disk Utility Archives - defaults-write.com https://www.defaults-write.com/cat/disk-utility/ Unveil hidden macOS (OS X) features Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:57:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.defaults-write.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/defwriteicon.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Disk Utility Archives - defaults-write.com https://www.defaults-write.com/cat/disk-utility/ 32 32 40598044 Enable the debug menu in Disk Utility https://www.defaults-write.com/enable-the-debug-menu-in-disk-utility/ https://www.defaults-write.com/enable-the-debug-menu-in-disk-utility/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:57:56 +0000 http://www.defaults-write.com/?p=522 OS X Disk Utility has a hidden debug-menu that, when enabled, can give you access to more advanced Disk Utility features. The debug-menu gives you access to the restore partition (OS X 10.7 and above). The ‘Debug’ option will appear after applying this command in OS X Terminal: defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled -bool true Restart ... Read more

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]]> OS X Disk Utility has a hidden debug-menu that, when enabled, can give you access to more advanced Disk Utility features. The debug-menu gives you access to the restore partition (OS X 10.7 and above). The ‘Debug’ option will appear after applying this command in OS X Terminal: 

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled -bool true

Restart the Disk utility to make the changes affect.

Disable the debug-menu:

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled -bool false

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