MiniTool Partition Wizard for Mac System Tools › Disk Management MiniTool Partition Wizard by MiniTool Solution Ltd. Is a free (for personal use) and very popular application that will help you create, edit, delete and manage disk partitions. The Mac hard drives partition manager tool helps the user to create, resize the partition on their Macintosh HDs. It can create a bootable USB for partition creation, removal, resizing on a boot.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Mac is the system and data management solution for Apple computers. Powerful backup and flexible recovery functions, everything you need for perfect partitioning, and reliable data wiping algorithms.
Use CasesRegular data protection
When working on a specific project, you need regular backups to protect your work progress. With Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Mac, you can do an initial full image of individual volumes or entire system followed by incremental updates. By merging contents of an increment with its parental image you can optimize existing backup chains, as processing many increments in a chain during restoration takes extra time. This option can also help to save backup storage space by eliminating obsolete time stamps.
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If initially allocated space for the Boot Camp Windows partition resulted insufficiently, you can ‘borrow’ some space from your Mac partition and redistribute the unused space between the partitions. All that without restarting a system.
Selective restore
Have you accidentally lost your email database? Restoring the whole backup image because of just one file would be time-consuming and ineffective. With Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Mac, you can selectively extract data from backup images and dramatically speed up the restore.
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Your Mac fails to start up for an unknown reason? Use our bootable recovery media, find out what’s wrong, get the system back on track or retrieve valuable information from the failed storage device.
Backup to a virtual container
Do you need to try new software but you’re concerned it could damage your system? The best way out is to back up your Mac to VMDK and launch it in the VMware Fusion virtual environment. This way, you can try and decide whether the new software is safe and fits your needs.
Migration and wiping
Willing to sell your old Mac? Make a clone of your old disk. With HDM, you can sit back or continue your work while the software resizes partitions and copies data adjusting to the capacity of a new storage device. Once done, wipe your disk to make sure confidential and private data doesn’t fall into wrong hands. The wiping is performed with one of the ten military-grade erasure algorithms. You may also check the SSD Trim option to safely erase on-disk data or remnants of deleted files from solid state drives.
Boot correction
Your Windows Boot Camp won’t start up? Before you initiate restore from a previous backup image, try our boot correction tools to get it back on track in just a few minutes.
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Disk Utility underwent quite a bit of change when Apple released OS X El Capitan. The new version of Disk Utility is much more colorful, and some say easier to use. Others say it has lost many of the basic capabilities that old Mac hands took for granted.
While this is indeed true for some functions, such as creating and managing RAID arrays, it's not true that you can no longer resize your Mac volumes without losing data.
We will confess though, that it's not as easy or intuitive to resize volumes and partitions as it was with the older version of Disk Utility. Some of the problems are caused by the clumsy user interface that Apple came up with for the new version of Disk Utility.
With the gripes out of the way, let's take a look at how you can successfully resize volumes and partitions on your Mac.
The Rules of Resizing
Understanding how resizing works in Disk Utility will go a long way toward helping you resize a volume without experiencing any loss of information.
Fusion Drives that have been partitioned can be resized, however, never resize a Fusion Drive with a version of Disk Utility older than the version that was originally used to create the Fusion Drive. If your Fusion Drive was created with OS X Yosemite, you can resize the drive with Yosemite or El Capitan, but not with any earlier version, such as Mavericks. This rule doesn't come from Apple, but from anecdotal evidence gleaned from various forums. Apple, however, does mention that in no case should a version older than OS X Mavericks 10.8.5 ever be used to resize or manage a Fusion Drive.
To enlarge a volume, the volume or partition that is directly after the target volume must be deleted to make room for the enlarged target volume.
The last volume on a drive can’t be enlarged.
The pie chart interface for adjusting volume size is very picky. When possible, use the optional Size field to control the size of a drive segment instead of the pie chart's dividers.
Only drives formatted using the GUID Partition Map can be resized without losing data.
Always back up your drive's data before resizing a volume.
How to Enlarge a Volume Using Disk Utility
You can enlarge a volume as long as it's not the last volume on the drive (see the rules, above), and you're willing to delete the volume (and any data it may contain) that resides directly in back of the volume you wish to enlarge.
If the above meets your goal, here's how to enlarge a volume.
Make sure you have a current backup of all data on the drive you wish to modify.
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It would be nice if you could resize volumes without having to delete a volume and lose any information you have stored there. With the new Disk Utility, that isn't directly possible, but under the right circumstances, you can resize without losing data, although in a somewhat complicated manner.
In this example, we still have two volumes on our selected drive, Stuff and More Stuff. Stuff and More Stuff each take up 50% of the drive space, but the data on More Stuff is only using a small part of its volume's space.
We wish to enlarge Stuff by reducing the size of More Stuff, then adding the now free space to Stuff. Here is how we can do that:
First, make sure you have a current backup of all the data on both Stuff and More Stuff.
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Finishing the Resizing
Resizing Wrap-Up
As you can see, resizing with the new version of Disk Utility can be simple (our first example), or a bit convoluted (our second example). In our second example, you could also use a third-party cloning app, such as Carbon Copy Cloner, to copy the data between the volumes.
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So, while resizing volumes is still possible, it has become a multi-step process that requires a bit of planning before you begin.
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Nevertheless, Disk Utility can still resize volumes for you, just plan ahead a bit, and be sure to have current backups.
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