Hello everyone,
I have an external 250 GB HDD which has a 120Gb Mac OS Extended Journaled partition, the rest being free space. I'd like to create a second volume out of the free space which exists, using the Disk Utility. What I'd like to know is whether this would erase the data I already have on the existing partition (the first volume) or will leave the existing partition unaffected?
I know in Windows this wouldn't affect the existing partition, but with Disk Utility I'm a little worried, as after I choose the partition type and name for the partition to be created and I click on the "Partition" button, a warning dialogue opens saying:
"Partitioning a disk will destroy all the information on volume of the disk
The disk has 1 volume
"Name_of_my_existing_volume"
Are you sure you wish to partition the disk?"
Thank you in advance,
Cheers,
Horea
I have an external 250 GB HDD which has a 120Gb Mac OS Extended Journaled partition, the rest being free space. I'd like to create a second volume out of the free space which exists, using the Disk Utility. What I'd like to know is whether this would erase the data I already have on the existing partition (the first volume) or will leave the existing partition unaffected?
I know in Windows this wouldn't affect the existing partition, but with Disk Utility I'm a little worried, as after I choose the partition type and name for the partition to be created and I click on the "Partition" button, a warning dialogue opens saying:
"Partitioning a disk will destroy all the information on volume of the disk
The disk has 1 volume
"Name_of_my_existing_volume"
Are you sure you wish to partition the disk?"
Thank you in advance,
Cheers,
Horea