When it comes to partitioning a hard drive, most people think of Windows or Linux. However, partitioning on a Mac could also be necessary, although not as common. In this article, we will discuss how you can partition a hard drive on Mac.
Firstly, the way you want to partition the drive on a Mac is through the disk utility. To access it, you could go up to the spotlight and type in “disk,” and it should be the first one that comes up. If that doesn’t show up for some reason, you can also go to finder, to applications, utilities, and disk utility, and open it from there.
Once you have opened the disk utility, you will see the Mac OS installation drive, which is the one the system is currently running on. If you have added an additional drive that’s not been initialized, and there are no partitions, you need to access it. To do so, go over to view, this little drop-down menu, go to show all devices, and that will show the two hard drives that are installed here.
To initialize the drive, you need to make sure you have it selected and go to edit and erase. It’ll give you the option to erase this particular drive. You can name the drive whatever you like, and leave it as the Mac OS journaled, which is the default file system. Then click erase, and it will erase and partition the drive and install the file system.
If you want to change the partition table, you can do so by clicking the partition button here. You can add a partition, for example, and use the little slider to adjust how large the partition you want, and also rescale the other partition that’s been made.
As a result, you could take a single drive and partition it into two different partitions. You can open both of these up in the finder, and you can see under devices it shows them as their individual device.
In conclusion, partitioning a hard drive on Mac is relatively easy and straightforward. By using the disk utility, you can initialize a drive, change the partition table, and create multiple partitions on a single drive.