> 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
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