Hi Ronni Thanks for the information. Can I paraphrase your general comments to my particular set up - and ask more detail?
Creating a new partition: Is this a task suited to Disk Utility, or is a commercial application recommended? DU is scary here - it says “to erase and partition the selected disk …” etc. I don’t want to erase or interfere with the boot drive; just create a second visible partition for movie backups in sparse image format. Are the hidden partitions used for OS X Recovery ignored for this exercise - do I just select the 2-partition option? Is the procedure for partitioning the same for Fusion drives and standard drives? Removing a partition: Are these tasks suited to Disk Utility? (One commercial app I skimmed would create partitions, but not remove them.) After data is removed and partition erased, is it a simple matter to re-size the original (OS X) partition? Cheers Alan On 14 Dec 2014, at 5:04 pm, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 14 Dec 2014, at 4:28 pm, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I had some success with the Sparse Image question. My questions about >> creating (and later removing) a partition on the internal hard drive (with >> OS X) still stands. > > Hello Alan, > CREATE A NEW PARTITION > As shipped by Apple, your boot disk has a single partition. (You can think of > hard disk partitions as similar to rooms in a house. Right now, your “house” > stores all your files in a single room filled with file cabinets.) > Partitioning allows you to create multiple rooms. The only problem is that > all these different rooms must fit into the space of the original house. So, > partitioning allows you to create multiple rooms, but it doesn’t expand the > total storage space available to you. > NOTE: In the past, we would partition drives to organize our files. This is > no longer a good idea, because there’s a performance hit in moving between > different partitions. While partitioning the boot drive still makes sense, > partitioning for data storage does not. > > REMOVING A PARTITION > Removing a partition will erase all the data that is stored on it; so be > SURE!!! you have moved all essential data to another drive. (Removing a > partition will not affect any other partition on the same, or any other, hard > drive. > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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