Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Visual QuickStart Guide

Disk Utility

Disk Utility, as the name implies, is a utility for working with disks. Specifically, it can:

• Provide general information about a disk or volume.

• Verify and repair a disk or volume.

• Erase a selected disk or volume.

• Divide a disk into several volumes or partitions.

• Set up a RAID disk.

• Create a blank disk image, or a disk image from a file or a disk.

• Mount disk images as disks.

• Burn a disk image to CD-R or DVD-R.

• Restore a disk from a backup image.

In this part of the chapter, I explain how to use Disk Utility’s most useful features.

✓ Tips

• A disk is a storage device. A volume is a part of a disk formatted for storing files.

• A disk image is a single file that contains everything on a disk. You can mount a disk image on your desktop just like ...