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diskutil — macOS Disk & APFS Management

Command-line front-end to Disk Utility on macOS — list, partition, format, repair, encrypt, and snapshot APFS containers, plus build and tear down software RAID volumes.
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tmutil — Time Machine from the Command Line

Drive Time Machine backups, destinations, exclusions, local APFS snapshots, restores, and verification entirely from the terminal — without opening System Settings.
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Filesystems — Inodes, Links, Journaling, ext4/XFS/Btrfs/ZFS/APFS/NTFS

Core filesystem concepts every operator should know: inodes, directory structure, hard vs symbolic links, journaling, copy-on-write, and a head-to-head of ext4, XFS, Btrfs, ZFS, APFS, and NTFS with mount options and pitfalls.
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