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Creates a new partition. Note that unlike most other software, iPartition will not format a newly created partition unless you explicitly ask it to; for this reason, you will typically want to choose the Format… option after creating new partitions.
Writes zeroes to a partition. For a large partition, this can take some considerable time. Note that this is not a secure wipe.
Format a partition. Please note that the current release of iPartition can only format Mac OS Standard (HFS), Extended (HFS+) and Extended Journaled partitions; FAT and NTFS volumes.
Clone a partition. Use this option to clone a partition to a new disk or to a new partition on the same disk. See our cloning page for more information. Note that you can also drag and drop a partition on the disk that you want to clone it to.
Some HFS+ volumes have an HFS wrapper for backwards compatibility with earlier versions of the Mac OS. This option allows you to add or remove the HFS wrapper from an HFS+ volume.
Note that iPartition will only allow volumes with an HFS wrapper to grow to 256GB in size. Removing the wrapper will allow you to grow your volumes above this limit.
HFS+ now supports a case sensitive format as well as the usual case insensitive format. On a case sensitive volume, the names “Readme”, “README” and “ReadMe” would all represent different files, even if they were in the same folder.
This option allows you to non-destructively change a case sensitive volume into a case insensitive one, and vice-versa. If you are going from a case sensitive volume to a case insensitive volume, some of your files may be renamed automatically by iPartition so that they do not clash. If all of the files in the table below were in the same directory, the right hand column shows the new names iPartition would choose for them:
Old name | New name |
---|---|
README.txt | README.txt |
ReadMe.txt | ReadMe 1.txt |
Readme.txt | Readme 2.txt |
README | README |
ReadMe | ReadMe 1 |
Readme | Readme 2 |
Notice that iPartition puts the number before any file extension.
N.B. iPartition does not transform filenames with numbers on the end back into their original forms. There is no way to tell which files were renamed by the user and which were renamed by the conversion process.