{"id":12509,"date":"2015-10-13T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T15:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12509"},"modified":"2016-03-23T12:52:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T16:52:06","slug":"disk-utility-in-el-capitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/disk-utility-in-el-capitan\/","title":{"rendered":"Disk Utility in El Capitan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lloyd Chambers<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n

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Make it garish, dumb it down, don’t add useful functionality, and make sure the window cannot be resized, since everyone has just one drive anyway, right? […] I can’t see most of my drives and volumes any more without scrolling. This makes getting any view of what is there quite difficult (let alone relationships between drives\/volumes\/partitions), but worse it increases the risks of making a mistake (data destruction) by selecting the wrong disk<\/em>. But there are gratuitous bugs also, not just crippled visuals.<\/p>\r\n

[…]<\/p>\r\n

There is no RAID tab any more, and look at the wonderful display of all these Untitled<\/strong> volumes (none<\/em> of my volumes are called Untitled).<\/p>\r\n

[…]<\/p>\r\n

Scrolling way down past the 15 “Untitled” nuisances, I find my RAID volumes. Disk Utility does not see fit to indicate the type of RAID (stripe or mirror), or its status (say, a failed mirror drive).<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Nicholas Riley<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n

Yeah, you can’t even launch<\/em> 10.11’s Disk Utility in some configurations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n

Rowan Pope<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n

10.11 Disk Utility is severely broken. If you replace a HDD, can’t even rebuild a fresh Fusion Drive. Need 10.10<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n

Update (2015-10-16): Disk Utility also lost the ability to have multiple windows (and, thus, multiple operations running at once).<\/p>\r\n

Update (2015-10-29): I continue to have problems<\/a> with Disk Utility’s new interface for partitioning and am surprised<\/a> at which information it thinks is important to highlight.<\/p>\r\n

Update (2016-03-23): Craig Hockenberry<\/a> (tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n

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When Disk Utility fails to mount a disk, no error message or other user feedback is presented to indicate there\u2019s a problem.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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