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 ...
Apple offers a couple of software RAID solutions for people interested in either creating a larger disk out of two, or mirroring two disks together for data redundancy in the event of a drive failure.
One of the best features introduced in Lion (OS X 10.7), and available on every version of OS X since, is OS X Recovery. The OS X installer creates an invisible, bootable, 650MB partition—a portion of ...