How to resize Mac partition| Guide to Increase/ Decrease Mac Volume

A Mac user who has recently switched to Lion must have faced the scenario where one needs to create multiple partitions in Mac drive. The Mac disk utility is an excellent application to handle all the Mac disk related issues.

What tasks can be done with Mac disk utility?

1. Creation and conversion of disk images into Mac readable format
2. Mounting and unmounting of disks (both hard disks and removable disks)
3. Checking the S.M.A.R.T status of Mac disk
4. Disk formatting, creating partitions

From above points, it can easily be concluded that almost all the Mac disk partition related tasks can be done with disk utility but still there are some exceptions with its ability. Some of them are given here:

1. One cannot use disk utility to hide/reveal a Mac partition.
2. Automatic shifting of all the free spaces at one location.

The interface of disk utility is not very friendly for many newbies and that is also one of the reasons for using third party application. This fact has been been experienced by many users of Stellar Partition Manager for Mac.

After the release of Mac Lion 10.7 , this application is applied to manage Mac Lion partitions successfully. The application was used to resize mac partitions, delete an exisiting one and creating a new one. Their feedback was extremely in favour of this partition management tool.

Visit Stellar Partition Manager for Mac for more advance feature

How to resize Mac Lion partition with Stellar partition manager?

Step 1. Launch Stellar Partition manager. The startup windows is divided into three panes.

a. Operation bar : It lists all the tasks that can be applied on the Mac disk.

b. Left Pane: It lists all the disks attached the machine.

c. It shows the current status of volumes on the drive , selected in left pane.

Step 2. Select the volume and resize it by dragging the slide from corner.

A very common question being asked by many of the users is Can I use this application to resize current boot drive? The answer is NO. But, its important to mention here we cannot apply it directly but, one needs to create a bootable DVD which can be created by this application itself.