.dmg files
- Way to distribute software to MacOS
Disk images are data containers that emulate disks. Like disks, they can be partitioned and formatted. Many common uses of disk images blur the distinction between the disk image container and its content, but this distinction is critical to understanding how disk images work. The terms “attach” and “detach” are used to distinguish the way disk images are connected to and disconnected from a system. “Mount” and “unmount” are the parallel filesystems options.
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