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Disk Utility / `diskutil list` can hang for a long time #140

Open lgarron opened 1 year ago

lgarron commented 1 year ago
  1. Plug in an external drive.
  2. Open Disk Utility or run diskutil list in a terminal.

Expected: I can see a listing of disks in a reasonable amount of times — a few seconds at most. Observed: the listing can hang for a long time, sometimes close to a minute or more.

It's often very useful to open Disk Utility or run diskutil list right after plugging in a disk, and this adds a lot of frustration to the process.

Especially for Disk Utility, it would be nice if it quickly listed as many disks as possible, given that it refreshes to show additional disks as they become available. But unfortunately, there seems to be some synchronous operation that hangs the entire listing.

keebruce commented 1 month ago

It takes wayyy longer than a minute for me-- more like an hour and then returning nothing. Is Apple ever going to fix this?