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How HAST mirrors block devices across two hosts over the network, how Ctl serves them out as an iSCSI target, and where each one actually fits versus ZFS's own replication tools.
About This Mac says the disk is nearly full, but manually adding up visible file sizes doesn't come close. Here's how to find what's actually consuming space, including what Finder normally hides.
How GEOM's graph of providers and consumers underlies partitioning, RAID, encryption, and disk labels on FreeBSD.
How ZFS's storage pools, datasets, and copy-on-write snapshots fit together on FreeBSD, with the commands you'll actually use day to day.
A complete walkthrough from raw disks to a mounted, resizable logical volume — physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes explained as you build them.
How APFS's container/volume model, copy-on-write clones, and snapshots replaced HFS+ across every Apple platform.