Apple File System
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Sep 19, 2026
Tom BridgeHOST
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Tom BridgeHOST
Since we've converted this podcast to APFS, the funny metadata joke is at the end.
Tom BridgeHOST
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Tom BridgeHOST
Since we've converted this podcast to APFS, the funny metadata joke is at the end.
Wesley HilliardHOST
Like there was no catastrophic failure.
Wesley HilliardHOST
We moved to APFS and it's just nothing.
Wesley HilliardHOST
No news, no horrific stories.
Wesley HilliardHOST
And yet, to this day, you still hear about horror stories of some poor corporate or military installation upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8, and it's just meltdowns and fires and death and destruction.
John SiracusaHOST
So first of all, from Apple, they have a document called, a text support document called, Move Your Photos Library to Save Space on Your Mac.
John SiracusaHOST
And the relevant text is, Make sure that your external storage device, such as the USB drive or Thunderbolt drive, is formatted for Mac, either APFS format or macOS Extended Journal format.
John SiracusaHOST
And the published date on this is June 16th, 2026, so it's not an ancient document, okay? So they tell and there's more to the document.
John SiracusaHOST
They tell you, here's make sure you do this.
Marco ArmentHOST
It means Apple tries to automatically determine the size limit.
Marco ArmentHOST
What this means in practice is you're constantly running out of disk space and you have no control over it.
Marco ArmentHOST
And so what I decided, you know, the modern version of that, a little bit better than a sparse bundle, is using an additional APFS volume because APFS allows you to split your internal drive into multiple volumes and...
Marco ArmentHOST
They can be dynamically sized or you can tell one restrict to this size, which, by the way, I learned that you can't do after you've created the volume.
James MesserHOST
You need to know mobile operating systems, such as iPadOS, iOS, and Android.
James MesserHOST
You need to understand various file system types, such as NTFS, REFS, FAT32, EXT4, XFS, APFS, and XFAT.
James MesserHOST
I also need to know vendor-to-life cycle limitations, end-of-life and update limitations, and understand the compatibility concerns between operating systems.
James MesserHOST
That's just one section of a very big Section 1, Domain 1, goes on for pages.
Tom BridgeHOST
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Tom BridgeHOST
Since we've converted this podcast to APFS, the funny metadata joke is at the end.
Alexis Briggs BrignoneHOST
And you will tell me, well, you know, Android is not macOS.
Alexis Briggs BrignoneHOST
It's not APFS.
Alexis Briggs BrignoneHOST
No, I get it.
Alexis Briggs BrignoneHOST
It's true.
Damashe ThomasHOST
I can leave the storage system here that's currently connected to the Mac Mini.
Damashe ThomasHOST
The problem is Linux can't read APFS.
Damashe ThomasHOST
Or if it can read it, it can't write it.
Damashe ThomasHOST
And if it can write it, if you get whatever correct tools for that to happen, it's kind of buggy.