Ars Technica

SD card partition (one FAT, one GUID Mac OS) Is this possible?

I want to partition the card so I can use it for an OS install disk (Mac OS Extended GUID) in one partition and as a camera disk (MS-DOS FAT) in the other partition. Disk utility can do the partition, ...
Ars Technica

MBR Versus GUID Partion for 2 TB Advanced Format Drives

Is there any reason to use an MBR versus GUID partition on a WD20EARS 2 TB advanced format drive? The drive will most likely be connected to a Windows 7 x64 machine and a Windows Home Server v1 box ...
PC Magazine

GUID partition table

The format used to define the hard disk partitions in computers with UEFI startup firmware. The GUID Partition Table (GPT) replaces the previous master boot record (MBR). GPT partitions can hold 18 ...
CNET

Tutorial: Creating a Dual-Boot (PowerPC and Intel) drive

In order to perform this procedure, you will need an external FireWire hard drive, as well as copies of Mac OS X for both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs. You will also need access to both an Intel ...
Macworld

Resize partitions on-the-fly

Command-line enthusiasts know that if you can do something in the regular Mac interface, you can usually do it faster using Terminal. But as of Mac OS X 10.4.6, Terminal also lets you perform a feat ...
Macworld

A drive and a partition: How to understand the difference when erasing Mac disks

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but ...