Safety


Warning: always back-up any important data before using iPartition. Whilst iPartition has been extensively tested, there is no guarantee that it is entirely bug-free. Moreover, circumstances beyond our control, including but not limited to power outages, hardware failure, bugs in the operating system or interference by other software on your machine could all cause iPartition to malfunction.

Coriolis Systems Limited does not accept any responsibility for your use or misuse of this software. See the iPartition licence for more information.

However, with that out of the way, we are reasonably confident that, in normal operation, iPartition is very unlikely to damage your data; we have taken care writing the critical areas of code such that they will abort rather than damaging the filesystem structure, and we have expended considerable time and effort testing the software to ensure that that is the case. It is always possible that there is something that we have missed, which is another reason that we tell you to back-up your files before using our software, and there will always be scenarios which, for one reason or another, we have been unable to test, but we have tried to design our software to adopt reasonable behaviour in such circumstances.

We have tested our code against both in-house tools and against other disk verification software, such as Apple’s fsck_hfs program, and Microsoft’s chkdsk software, as well as against the validation checks built in to the Mac OS itself. We have also tested against Alsoft DiskWarrior and Symantec Norton Utilities (for HFS filesystems) to ensure that there are no errors in our code that are not picked-up by Apple’s fsck_hfs.

In the event of a power outage or hardware failure that occurs during partition movement (the most time-consuming and hence the most risky operation), iPartition may be able to recover your data. If this happens, do not run any other disk utility software. Instead, run iPartition and point it at the disk it was working on. It should offer to continue from where it left off, though recovery mode can be significantly slower as iPartition does not use any optimizations when moving data.

In the unlikely event that iPartition actually crashes whilst trying to move partitions (that is, you see the box asking you to report an error) then you should not try and repair your disk using iPartition. You should report a bug and if you can, wait for advice before doing anything further. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to help, but we will obviously do our best.

If you do experience catastrophic data loss, Coriolis Systems Limited may, at their discretion, offer to assist in the recovery of your data. In such a case, terms and conditions will apply and you will generally be expected to pay any costs that we incur in respect of recovery of your data, including but not limited to shipping and handling charges, taxes and/or duties. We may also charge a fee for this assistance.