How to Repartition a Mac

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Partition Your Mac's Hard Drive with This Free Tool More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by agentash | permalink
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Disk Utility is the application of choice for partitioning a hard drive. Disk Utility is straightforward and easy to use, it provides a nice graphical interface, and best of all, it’s free. Disk Utility is included with the Mac OS.

For further reading: http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitypart.htm ^[1]

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Repartition hard drive with bootcamp on it More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Mark Goodman - Morris | permalink
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I currently have this setup on my Mac- OS X Mavericks 10.9.3, Windows (bootcamp) and a Recovery HD. My question is can I repartition my hard drive to have another partition, using disk utility (res...

For further reading: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/133063/repartition-hard-drive-with-bootcamp-on-it ^[2]

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Repartition hard drive using Mac OS X, keep existing data More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Rohit Kinra | permalink
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I got a 1 TB disk a year or so ago and loaded it with some hundred of GB of data. I somehow neglected to check the file system, which turns out to be FAT-32 and thus too small for files bigger than...

For further reading: http://superuser.com/questions/225503/repartition-hard-drive-using-mac-os-x-keep-existing-data ^[3]

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Geek 101: How to partition a Mac hard drive | Apple | Geek.com More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by P Vemer | permalink
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When partitioning an internal hard drive, you are effectively splitting your storage space into two separate entities. It’s just an organizational trick for the computer — there is just one physical hard drive [...]
Tags: Apple, disk utility, fat, formatting, geek 101, hard drive, hard drives, how to, mac, os x, partition, windows

For further reading: http://www.geek.com/apple/how-to-partition-a-mac-hard-drive-1482555/ ^[4]

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How to Use Your Mac’s Disk Utility to Partition, Wipe, Repair, Restore, and Copy Drives More
Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago by Lindy Cummings | permalink
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Your Mac includes a built-in partition manager and disk management tool known as Disk Utility. It’s even accessible from Recovery Mode, so you can partition your Mac’s hard drive without any special bootable tools.

For further reading: http://www.howtogeek.com/212836/how-to-use-your-macs-disk-utility-to-partition-wipe-repair-restore-and-copy-drives/ ^[5]

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1. http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitypart.htm

2. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/133063/repartition-hard-drive-with-bootcamp-on-it

3. http://superuser.com/questions/225503/repartition-hard-drive-using-mac-os-x-keep-existing-data

4. http://www.geek.com/apple/how-to-partition-a-mac-hard-drive-1482555/

5. http://www.howtogeek.com/212836/how-to-use-your-macs-disk-utility-to-partition-wipe-repair-restore-and-copy-drives/