Do you have a single partition on your
Mac hard drive? If yes, then it is time to partition the hard drive
for its effective and safe use. Partitioning the hard drive will
provide many advantages over a single partition hard drive.
Pros of making partition on hard drive are:
Multiple OS installation:
In single partition you can install only one operating system, so
creating partition will facilitate you to install more than one OS. You
can install as many operating system as much the number of
partitions.
Easy Troubleshooting:
If you have encountered any problem with the Mac then troubleshooting
will be easier and effective in multi-partition hard drive. Checking
of the individual partitions will provide the good view of the
problem on your Mac. You can easily Verify and Repair Mac volumes
separately.
Protection of data in the event
of OS corruption:
If anyhow due to any reason like virus, malware, deletion of system
files, etc. operating system gets corrupted and then the data in the
volumes other than the boot volume will be safe. There is no need to format the data in the other volumes, you just need to reinstall the
OS to fix the problem.
Easy searching of data:
Searching will be easy in case of multi-partition drive environment
because we have prior idea about the saved location of the particular
files. It will be a lot easier if we search in that particular volume
only. The same can be a tiring task if we have to look out for a
file in one large Mac hard drive.
Cloning and organization of data
or volume will be easy:
It is obvious that we need less time and effort to organize small
data effectively as compared the large amount of data. We can also
clone volumes having important data inspite of making clone of the
whole hard drive as it will be very time and memory consuming.
These all reasons counts to the benefits of creating partitions on
the hard drive. Partition can be created either at the time of OS
installation or if you want to create partition in the installed
system then it can be done by a third-party partition manager tool.
Partition
operations can also be done using disk utility but it has some cons
like it cannot shift partitions and cannot hide and reveal partition.
To fulfill my partition needs I took help of the following software
http://alternativeto.net/software/stellar-partition-manager/about.