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.

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Why Should we partition a Hard disk ?

The process of dividing a hard disk into different logical units is called Disk partitioning. These logical units are termed as partitions. For computer users, either a Mac user or a PC user, partition is a very general term which lets you to use one physical disk as several multiple disks.

Why to Partition a Mac hard drive?

1. Mac partitioning helps you to keep the operating system (and other applications) separate from user files.

2. If you want to create a clone of your Mac OS only you can do it without disturbing the user files.

3. Its ensures the required virtual memory for the proper functioning of operating system.

4. The hard drive partitioning helps to create multi-boot setups so as to install different operating systems on different partitions.

5. A user can install Windows, Linux and Mac OS X on the same hard disk .

6. On a large hard drive with single partition it takes more time to access the MFT (Master File Table) in comparison to multiple small partitions.

7. We can reduce the chances of file system corruption by creating a separate partition for read-only data.

Apart from partitioning a Mac drive there are some disadvantages of partitioning a Mac drive.

1. The total usable space on the disk gets reduced due to the delicacy of certain file system administration areas on the disk.

2. The size of continuous free blocks gets reduced and thus the chance of fragmentation of data arises.

3. Partitions break the free capacities of the hard drive which reduces the usage of complete disk capacity.

4. Moving data from one partition to another is slower than moving the same data between directories. In case of partitions the OS has copies contents of the data file whereas in case of directories it only alters the file system administration area.

As far as creating Mac partitions is concerned, a user can use the inbuilt disk utility or other specialized application like Stellar Partition manager. This third party Mac tool is capable to create, delete, resize and format Mac partitions.

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