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With the arrival of El Capitan, Apple decided to ruin their great Disk Utility.
Not only are some partitioning options gone, the option to verify or repair permission has been removed as well.
So how do I verify and repair permission now (rarely needed!) ????
To verify permissions:
Open Terminal and type this to verify permissions on your Mac disk (/).
Replace "/" at the end with the disk you want to verify if it's not your Mac hard disk.
sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --verify --standard-pkgs /
To repair permissions:
sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --repair --standard-pkgs --volume /
This may take a while.
If you run repair_packages command without sudo you'll get help information instead.
/usr/libexec/repair_packages
Usage: repair_packages [ARGUMENTS]...
Commands:
--help Print this usage guide.
--list-standard-pkgs Display the package ids in the standard set.
--verify Verify permissions on files in the specified package(s).
--repair Repair permissions on files in the specified package(s).
Options:
--pkg PKGID Verify or repair the package PKGID.
--standard-pkgs Verify or repair the standard set of packages.
--volume PATH Perform all operations on the specified volume.
--output-format # Print progress info using a special output format.
--debug Print debuging information while running.
