How can I resize my Mac Lion Partition | Resize Lion Partitions

Resizing Mac Lion partitions with disk utility and third party applications – A new topic of interest among Mac users. A user sometimes needs to either increase or decrease the Mac partitions size as per his needs. Here we are discussing some facts w.r.t. ways of modifying volume size in Mac.

Why do we need to resize Mac partition?

Its experts suggestion to keep related data all together in a single volume. I make easy to access the data. Also, in case your Mac Lion (any other OS X) volume goes inaccessible you will be able to retrieve data in other volumes. It makes your important data more secure. So, one should resize Mac partition as per the size of data in it. It helps to reduce the degree of fragmentation optimize the disk space.

How to resize Mac Lion partitions?

The Mac disk utility – inbuilt utility makes this task very easy and reliable.

Steps to increase Mac Volume size:

1. Go to /Applications/Utilities/.
   

2. 

   Disk Utility

   The left side of the Disk Utility window lists all the volumes in current drive. The window also displays the respective size, make, and model.
   
3. Select respective drive whose volume you want to resize.
   
4. Click the ‘Partition’ tab.
   
5. Select the volume listed immediately below the volume you wish to expand.
   
6. Click the ‘-’ (minus or delete) sign located below the Volume Scheme list.
   
7. Disk Utility will display a confirmation sheet listing the volume you are about to remove. Make sure that this is the correct volume before taking the next step.
   
8. Click the ‘Remove’ button.
   
9. Select the volume you wish to expand.
   
10. Grab the right-hand bottom corner of the volume and drag to expand it. If you prefer, you can enter a value in the ‘Size’ field.
    
11. Click the ‘Apply’ button.
    
12. Disk Utility will display a confirmation sheet listing the volume you are about to resize.
    
13. Click the ‘Partition’ button.
    

Disk Utility will resize the selected partition without losing any of the data on the volume.

Some users go for third party tools to get some more features with the basic ones. One such name is Stellar partition manager for Mac. The tool offers the ability to create, delete, format and hide a specific partition along with resizing partitions Mac.

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