The most common tool used to manage Mac partitions is Apple's Disk Utility. It was updated with Mac OSX. In prior versions of Mac OS ie; prior to Mac OS X, the functionality and features of Disk Utility could be found in the Disk First Aid application. As far as partitioning and formatting Mac drive is concerned, these tasks were accomplished through Drive Setup.
I have Mac OSX 10.6. and 40 GB hard drive with only two volumes – Bootable(Mac OS)- 26 GB and Non bootable(Data Drive)- 10 GB. I tried to ceate a new partition in bootable section but it took too much of time to understand the application and get my work done. Secondly, it warned me with a message that my data could be at risk. Although its free but not so easy to understand and use.
So, I used another Mac tool to manage partition – Stellar partition manager. Its great with an awesome interface. When I selected the drive it prompted me a message to create a bootable DVD to operate at main drive. That I did with the same application. After booting with this DVD, I can easily create new partition at Mac OS. Now I have three partitions on my Mac wih 20 GB, 10 GB and 10 GB of size.
Of course I had to pay $ 39.00 for Stellar partition manager but now I have an excellent Mac tool to resize , add and delete Mac partitions without any data loss. The extra features with this application are the options to hide or reveal a partition.
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