How to create Partition in Mac Lion Disk

When Apple released Mac Lion on 20 July 2011, more than 1 million Mac users downloaded the OS from Apple Apps store. Some have created a dual boot and rest removed their Mac OS X 10.6. The Apple boasts about more than 250 new features in Mac Lion and expects to break all the prior records of Mac sales.

The feature we are focusing upon is creating multiple partitions in Mac disk. The inbuilt tool to handle the task is Apple disk utility. But many of the novices and even tech savvy Mac users do not find this tool very user friendly. They ask for some easy to use third party tool for managing mac partitions.

If we talk about number of third party tools for Snow leopard then they are plenty in number but for Mac lion its very limited. Stellar Partition manager for Mac is one of those few Mac tools which provides all the legacy to perform all sorts of modifications in mac partitions. Here is list of tasks which can be performed with Stellar partition manager.

1. Create new partitions
2. Delete partitions
3. Format Mac partitions
4. Hide/Reveal partitions in Mac disk
5. Resize partitions as per the requirement

Steps to create new partitions in Mac OS X 10.7

Step1. Run Stellar partition manager. Heres a screenshot of startup window.

Step2. Click “Add” button from toolbar, mention the size of partition and start the process by clicking “start” button.

Step3. Task is done. You can resize the partition size by simply dragging the corner resize button.

Note: The important point to note here is – One cannot apply this partition manager to modify partitions on current drive. For this, one needs to create a bootable DVD which can be created by this application itself.

9:48 PM - By Stuart Bell 0

Can disk utility shift Mac partitions?

I have a PowerPC Mac with Mac OS X 10.4. I tried to create a dual boot disk on my Mac. The total size of my Mac disk is 250 GB. The Mac OSX was installed in 100 GB of space and rest 150 GB was free. I installed Windows 7 with bootcamp and allotted it 80 GB of space on the disk. Everything was well except one thing. I was left with two free spaces, sandwiched with Windows 7 volume. Here is the layout of my hard disk:

1. Mac OS X (10.4) = 100 GB
2. Free Space = 35 GB
3. Windows 7 = 80 GB
4. Free space = 35 GB

I wanted only three partitions on my Mac drive but unfortunately, created four. So, I had to merge the two free spaces and create a new partition of 70 GB.

Unfortunately, the Apple's disk utility doesn't show any option to merge / shift these free spaces to bring them together. So, finally, I had to search for a third party Mac tool to create a new partition from free space.

I found the Stellar partition manager for Mac which can :

1. Create new partition
2. Resize partition
3. Shift Partition
4. Hide / Reveal Mac partition
5. Format partition
6. Delete Mac partition

So, it was very easy with Stellar partition tool to bring the free spaces ( 35 GB each ) together to create a new partition of 70 GB. Now, I have three partition on my drive:

1. Mac OS X (10.4) = 100 GB
2. Windows 7 = 80 GB
3. New Partition = 70 GB

Apart from this I can also hide my partition and stop it being accessed by my daughter as it stores some very important files. Although there are so many other Mac applications to manage partitions in Mac but the features like :

1. Interesting GUI
2. Low price
3. Fast performance
4. Data safety

made me lean towards it. It is to suggest our readers not to believe blindly about any application but first try this application and check if it can serve you to manage your Mac partitions effectively.

11:20 PM - By Stuart Bell 0