OS X brings its unique capabilities to the command-line table, in the form of utilities that leverage OS X's user interface, file system, and security capabilities. Here are the best of the best of ...

OS X offers a very nice graphical user interface to verify and repair your hard drive, located in the Utilities folder. It’s called Disk Utility, and you can use it as the first line of defense when ...

The boot drive's format and partition structure can be checked both in the OS X graphical interface and in the Terminal. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...