Navigate through your menu and open Mac Disk Utility. When Mac Disk Utility opens, select the drive you want to resize.
- Follow the instructions carefully to enlarge a Mac Volume without losing any data: Open Mac Disk Utility toolkit from applications or utilities. Now when the Mac Disk Utility interface is open before you, select the Drive whose Volume has to be enlarged. Hit 'Partition' on the toolbar to resize a Mac Volume with Mac Disk utility.
- Then Resize the same partition to fill the remaining space. Now, a word about Partition Size. The ideal maximum size for the OS partition in Windows 98, 98SE and ME (which is always C:), is 8192 MB, or 8 GB. The reason is that once you go over 8 GB, the FAT32 file system wants to enlarge the cluster size from 4 KB to 8, 16 or 32 KB.
- Diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUIDpartitionscheme.240.1 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: AppleAPFS Container disk1 119.8 GB.
Stellar Partition Manager is an innovative utility to resize Mac partition. This utility can be immensely useful in improving the data storage efficiency of your Mac hard drive by enabling you to resize the partition/volume as per your data storage needs.
Why Need to Resize your Mac Partition!!
Over the period you keep on adding voluminous data to the various partitions/volumes of your Mac system. At a particular time you feel the need to increase the partition size so that you can accommodate all your data in a single storage location. Here Stellar Partition Manager for Mac comes as a helpful utility in resizing partition for maximum data storage and faster data access without any single chance of data loss.
Most of us face this situation that the partition where we install all our application files (usually known as the BOOT Volume) demands more storage in due course of time. To assign more space to such a volume, Stellar resize Mac Partition utility enables you to create a BOOTABLEMEDIA, using which you can comfortably resize the Boot Volume of your system. How to access windows partition on mac.
Another common situation that we encounter is that a particular partition of your Mac system has very less data than the storage space it is assigned. This space remains unused or idle. Using Stellar Partition Manager you can decrease the size of such a partition and make use of the newly created free space. You can also add this free space to another partition or create an entirely new partition combining such free spaces together.
Stellar Partition Manager helps in resizing Mac partition safely in all scenarios without any data loss. With this wonderful utility, resizing mac partition is completely risk-free and pretty simple. It does it in just few easy steps.
Resize Mac Partition:
- Run Stellar Partition Manager and select the disk, in which the partition/volume size to be increased or decreased.
How to Increase Partition Size:
Click the particular Volume/Partition from the graphical view of the volumes and follow any of the below options:
- Manually, drag down the slider from the bottom of the partition, up to the desired size and click ‘Resize'.
Note: You can increase the partition size, only if you have sufficient free space available below the particular volume/partition.
- Choose the particular Volume/Partition and the free spaces together from the graphical view of the interface. Click ‘Resize' icon on the tool bar.
- Once, you click the ‘Resize' icon, the ‘Resize Partition' window appears. Move the slider and specify the required volume size. Click ‘OK' and the resizing process starts.
- On completion of the resizing operation, the resized partition will get mounted on the desktop.
How To Increase Mac Partition Size Windows 10
How to Decrease Partition Size
To decrease the size of the partition or volume, follow the below steps:
- Select the particular Mac partition, you want to decrease.
- Click ‘Resize'. The resizing process starts.
Note: If there is any data block present in between the free spaces, you may receive a pop-up message to optimize the free space. In such a situation, click ‘Optimize' to proceed further. This will perform the optimization of the free space and resizes the volume to the required size.
How To Increase Partition Size Mac
Stellar Partition Manager is completely read-only in nature and resizes the selected volume or partition with utmost safety. The software works with Mac OS X 10.6 and all later versions.
To increase size of a system partition by taking unused space from any other on-disk partition, please do the following:
1. In the main window select the required hard disk (if several) on the Disk Map.
2. Choose a space donor partition and then call the context menu for it (right click of the mouse button) to launch the Move/Resize dialog.
3. In the opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the right by the drag-and-drop technique. While doing this, free space from the partition will be released (displayed in aqua-green). You can also do it manually by entering the exact size of free space. Click the Yes button to continue.
4. Now you've got a block of free space to add to the system partition. You cannot do it directly however, but by carrying out a number of extra move/resize operations.
5. Since the block of free space is within the extended partition, you need to take it out first. The program enables to resize the extended partition only when there's a block of free space adjoining its borders. In our case it's between two logical disks. So we need to move it. To do that, please select the first logical partition and then call the context menu for it (right click of the mouse button) to launch the Move/Resize dialog.
6. At first shift the right edge of the partition to the right, then do the same with the left edge. Make sure the partition size has been left unchanged.
7. Now you can resize the extended partition to take the block of free space out of it. Call the context menu for it (right click of the mouse button) to launch the Move/Resize dialog.
8. In the opened dialog shift the edge of the extended partition to the right.
9. The block of free space has been released.
10. Now you need to move the second primary partition just the way we did it with the logical partition to make the block of free space adjoin the system partition.
12. In the opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the right, thus increasing its size.
13. Apply all introduced changes. By default, our program works in the virtual mode of execution, so you have to confirm all operations to let the program accomplish them. To do that, just click the Apply button on the Virtual Operations Bar.
14. The program will require the system restart to accomplish the operation in a special boot-up mode. Click the appropriate button to agree.
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