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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 APFS's container/volume model, copy-on-write clones, and snapshots replaced HFS+ across every Apple platform.
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.