Mount All the Things! – Mounting APFS and 4k Disk Images on macOS 10.13

Recently there has been some questions on the forums and Twitter as to how to mount forensic disk images that were captured from Mac system that implemented 4k block sizes. A few years ago, Mac systems started to use 4k blocks instead of 512 byte block… Continue reading Mount All the Things! – Mounting APFS and 4k Disk Images on macOS 10.13

Apple announces Encryption-focused New File System for macOS Sierra

Apple announced one huge change at WWDC 2016: The company is replacing the HFS+ file system on MacOS, iOS, tvOS and WatchOS with a new file system.

The company has introduced its brand new file system called The Apple File System — or APFS for short — for iOS, OS X, tvOS, and WatchOS, making security its centerpiece.

“The Apple File System (APFS) is the next-generation file system designed

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