when I git clone the repository the following warning appears: ... warning: the following paths have collided (e.g. case-sensitive paths on a case-insensitive filesystem) and only one from the same...

When cloning a git repository that contains case-sensitive file paths (e.g. /README.md and /readme.md) on a case-insensitive file system (like NTFS or APFS), git will only check out one of the coll...

I've created an APFS volume on a MBP running High Sierra in order to use it as a Time Machine drive for the iMac I use at work (we don't have a backup solution so this is my hacky way to keep mysel...

I think this is related to iCloud Drive in some way, but I have not investigated. I'm trying to track down an issue with Perl's rename on macOS using the Apple Filesystem (APFS). I've been able to...

From version 8.1 until Mountain Lion (10.8), the OS supported a concept called "Named Forks". Named forks are equivalent to "Alternate Data Streams" in Windows. There is a ton o...

As explained by Dropbox, Smart Sync is a feature "that helps you save space on your hard drive. Access every file and folder in your Dropbox account from your computer, using virtually no hard driv...

I heard that timestamps in APFS are in nanoseconds. Are there any commands that are able to show APFS timestamps in nanoseconds? I've tried ls, stat but no luck so far.

With macOS High Sierra a new file system is available: APFS. This file system supports clone operations for files: No data duplication on storage. cp command has a flag (-c) that enables cloning ...

While profiling Git on a large repository, I found that git status is significantly (10x) slower on mac compared to linux. git status runs lstat on every file in the repository, which is where the ...

I am writing some little script that assembles backup data into one directory. The directory content will then be uploaded to a cloud service and after that we can remove it. I was wondering how on...

usually creating RAM disks works with the following commands hdid -nomount ram://<blocksize> Returns e.g. /dev/disk2 Then I would format the disk, with say newfs_hfs /dev/disk2 followe...

Using bash on macos I can create COW file clones with cp -c. Is there a Python library that provides the same functionality? The copy functions in shutil doesn't seem to mention cloning. On APFS c...

I want to shrink the boot file system's size(formatted as APFS), how to do it? In macOS Sierra, HFS+ can be shrunk without reboot/remount(in disk utility), but in macOS High Sierra, it seems imp...