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Maintenance for Your Drive
Reformat with Partitions
“Partitioning” is the process of dividing a hard drive into discrete sections called “vol-
umes.” Each volume works like a separate disk. You can create up to 16 dierent parti-
tions on a hard drive in OS X, and each partition can be of a dierent size and format.
With hard drives getting bigger, it is sometimes useful to partition your hard drive so
sections of its space can be used for dierent purposes. For instance, you might seg-
ment user data from backup data, set up a multi-boot environment with dierent op-
erating systems, or create a dedicated capture scratch disk for programs such as Final
Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, or Adobe Premiere.
The following steps will guide you through the simple process of partitioning your
drive. In this example, we will partition an 8TB G-RAID Studio. The steps will be identi-
cal for your drive, only the name may be dierent.
1. First, open the Disk Utility program. This application is located on your system
under Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. The window shown below will appear.
Your G-Technology drive will be displayed in the left-hand column.
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