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 ...

Has anyone resized the disk on a High Sierra VM? I've got VMs to High Sierra from Sierra, and it seems that this puts a recovery partition after the normal partition, and it ends up causing OSX to act ...

Messing around with the hard drive’s structure is high on my list of the most unpleasant things to do with a computer. However, my basic do-it-myself credo is to never pay a computer shop guy to do ...

The UneasySilence weblog details how to expand a Windows partition for an installation of Windows on Parallels. Parallels comes with an image tool that lets you easily resize your virtual hard disk, ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

Kevin Germino keeps programs and data on separate partitions, but he needs to adjust their sizes. Can he do this safely? I know of two programs that can resize the partitions on your hard drive, ...

Reader Richard Lanier has a Windows issue—no, not that issue, but rather one involving size. He writes: I’m running Windows 7 in a Boot Camp partition on my MacBook Pro. When I first configured Boot ...

First of all, thanks to the Ars community ~ I've been a lurker for a while and this is my first post. I recently bought a laptop for a relative ~ an ASUS X200CA; a low-end affair, yes, but he's ...

Creating Disk Images in OS X is relatively simple and an easy way to package items either for presentation, portability over electronic media, or encryption to protect data on otherwise unencrypted ...