Oct 07, 2019 If you've always wanted to partition your Mac's hard drive so you can run a separate operating system — including the launch of macOS Big Sur — in tandem with your current one, it's surprisingly easy to do so thanks to Apple's built-in disk utility program. Here's how to partition your Mac.
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Disk Utility User Guide
Partitioning a disk divides it into individual sections, each of which acts as a separate volume.
However, with APFS, you shouldn’t partition your disk in most cases. Instead, create multiple APFS volumes within a single partition. With the flexible space management provided by APFS, you can even install another version of macOS on an APFS volume.
Important: If you’re partitioning your internal physical disk because you want to install Windows, use Boot Camp Assistant instead. Do not use Disk Utility to remove a partition that was created using Boot Camp Assistant. Instead, use Boot Camp Assistant to remove the partition from your Mac.
Add a partition
Important: As a precaution, it’s best to back up your data before creating new partitions on your device.
After you partition a storage device, an icon for each volume appears in both the Disk Utility sidebar and the Finder sidebar.
Delete a partition
WARNING: When you delete a volume or partition, all the data on it is erased. Be sure to back up your data before you begin.
Erase a partition
Enlarge a partition on a storage device
If you have multiple partitions on a device and one of them is running out of space, you may be able to enlarge it without losing any of the files on it.
To enlarge a volume, you must delete the volume that comes after it on the device, then move the end point of the volume you want to enlarge into the freed space. You can’t enlarge the last volume on a device.
WARNING: When you delete a volume or partition, all the data on it is erased. Be sure to back up your data before you begin.
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GGERARDmacrumors memberMac Os El Capitan Installer Download
Hello,
I know that the issue has already been addressed but I do not find the solution and I'm on Beta El Capitan. I have a DDI 1TB partitioned into 2 equal parts. On one, I 've Yosemite (I do not like it) and on the other, El Capitan that works wonders. For safety, in addition to my Time Capsule, I saved on a partitioned External Hard Disk the Macintosh HD (Yosemite) and Macintosh HD2 (El Capitan). I wish to delete the partition and recover Yosemite 500GB for El Capitan on the Internal Hard Disk. can you help me to delete the partition just to have one? Thank you for your help GGERARD Comments are closed.
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