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Basic Usage |
iPartition is, generally speaking, pretty straightforward and easy to use, however there are a couple of things that may not be immediately obvious to the uninitiated.
Perhaps the most important thing to realise when using iPartition is that it does not immediately perform the actions you request. Instead, they are queued-up as “Pending Operations” and are only acted upon when you choose to commit them to disk.
The main reason for doing this is that some operations can take a long time, especially on large disks, and without this feature, you would be forced to wait for each operation to complete before specifying what to do next. It also allows you the opportunity to cancel operations if you later decide that they were not necessary or were inappropriate; to do so, simply open the Pending Operations window using the “Show Pending Operations” option in the Partition menu or by pressing the “Operations” button on the iPartition toolbar, select the operation you wish to cancel and hit Delete or Backspace, or choose “Delete” from the Edit menu.
One other thing to realise when using iPartition is that creating a partition is not the same as formatting it. For filesystem types that iPartition supports, it will assume that you want to format the partition after creating it but they are still considered separate operations and you can choose not to format if you don’t want to. You can still create partitions for filesystems that iPartition doesn’t support but you will have to use other software to format them.
Please take the time to read the safety page.