#disk

62 solutions

Check Free Space on All Drives with Get-PSDrive
Windowsstoragediskpowershell

A quick PowerShell table of used and free gigabytes across every local and mapped drive.

Low risk ✓ 2026-09-18
List All Connected Disks with diskutil list
macOSTerminaldiskdiskutil

See every internal and external disk, its partitions, and its /Volumes name from the terminal with one command.

Medium risk ✓ 2026-09-19
Eject a Drive with diskutil eject
macOSvolumesdiskdiskutil

diskutil eject flushes buffers and detaches a disk or volume — the terminal version of Finder's Eject.

Medium risk ✓ 2026-09-18
Check If a Windows Disk Uses MBR or GPT Partition Style
Windowsdiskpowershellpartitions

One PowerShell command to see the partition table style (MBR or GPT) of every drive in your PC.

Low risk ✓ 2026-09-18
Create an APFS Local Snapshot with tmutil localsnapshot
macOSbackupdisktmutil

Make a point-in-time restore point on the internal disk in seconds.

Low risk ✓ 2026-09-18
Free Space with apt autoremove and apt clean
Linuxdebiandiskapt

autoremove deletes no-longer-needed dependency packages, and clean wipes the downloaded .deb cache in /var/cache/apt/archives.

Medium risk ✓ 2026-09-17
Show Folder Sizes Sorted with du -sh
macOSFilesdisk

Rank every folder by disk usage, biggest last, in human-readable units.

Low risk ✓ 2026-09-18
Flush All Pending Disk Writes with sync
Linuxfilesystemdiskcli

Make sure cached writes physically land on disk before unplugging a drive or killing power.

Low risk ✓ 2026-09-19
Initialize and Format a New Disk with PowerShell
Windowssystemdiskpowershell

Turn a brand-new disk into a usable drive: initialize, partition to full size and format NTFS in three commands.

High risk ✓ 2026-09-19
Repair a Corrupted USB Stick with fsck.vfat
Linuxfilesystemdiskrepair

Fix FAT32 filesystem errors on flash drives and SD cards that Windows left dirty or Linux mounts read-only.

Medium risk ✓ 2026-09-19
List disks and filesystems with lsblk -f
Linuxfilesystemdisksystem-info

lsblk -f prints every block device as a tree with its filesystem type, UUID, label and mount point — the quickest way to identify which partition is which before formatting or mounting.

Low risk ✓ 2026-09-18
Fix a Windows Partition Linux Refuses to Mount (ntfsfix)
Linuxfilesystemdiskrepair

Clear the NTFS dirty flag left behind by an unclean Windows shutdown so dual-boot partitions mount again.

Medium risk ✓ 2026-09-19