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iPartition

iPartition - 3.2.0

Disk partitioning without initializing or reformatting.

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Current Version: 3.2.0
Release Date: 2009-11-24
License: Update
Downloads (this version): 605
Downloads (all versions): 102,417
Price: $44.95

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iPartition is a disk partitioning utility for Mac OS X with the ability to resize Mac OS extended (HFS ) partitions and Windows partitions while keeping their contents intact. Additionally, iPartition's intuitive, easy-to-use interface and built-in intelligence that saves you from having to reorganise your disk by hand to make contiguous space makes iPartition perhaps the easiest partitioning tool ever released.

Whether you want to partition your disk to try Linux, test the latest version of Mac OS X, optimise the performance of enterprise database applications, set-up an external disk capable of booting both Intel and PowerPC Macs, or simply restrict disk space usage by temporary files and swapfiles, iPartition can help you. In version 3, you can now resize Windows partitions which means you can adjust the size of your Boot Camp partition.

What's new in this version:

  • Fixed a problem with growing NTFS volumes by a large amount (and would have caused inconsistency warnings).
  • Fixed an issue with consistency warnings on wrapped HFS+ volumes.
  • Added a workaround for a Kernel bug to do with wrapped journaled HFS+ volumes.
  • Added support for putting HFS+ journals on external partitions/disks. Please note, this is only supported on Snow Leopard and Apple only officially support it on OS X Server.
  • Fixed an assertion that you might get when relocating files for a shrink operation on HFS+ volumes.
  • Fixed an issue with the bug report dialog where it wouldn't retain information entered.
  • Now built as a 64-bit application although it will run as a 32-bit application by default in this release.
  • Fixed the cause of an assertion failure that you can get if you change the type of a partition and then rename it on a disk with a PC/MBR partition scheme.
  • Fixed a minor inconsistency issue when formatting case sensitive HFS+ volumes.
  • Fixed an issue with shrinking NTFS volumes where it might complain about needing defragmentation when not actually necessary.
  • Fixed an issue with compacting NTFS volumes that could have caused inconsistencies.
  • Fixed a very minor issue when compacting NTFS volumes on PowerPC machines which might have caused some files to be relocated to a legal, but not ideal location.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur if you tried to rename a FAT volume to something with more than 11 characters.
  • Fixed iPartition so that it will work sensibly with partition types on the MBR scheme that it does not know about.
  • Fixed a number of minor user interface glitches (for example, you can now correctly edit partition sizes in the partition table view).

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9

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iPartition Commentaryplz - Version: 3.1.4, 10/8/2009 10:05PM PST

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iPartition CommentaryPrice - Version: 3.1.1, 2/21/2009 02:58PM PST

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WhiteDog
I expect the market will determine if iPartition is overpriced. In any case, I wouldn't use a re-partitioning app - not even Disk Utility, which can do some of this in Leopard - without backing up first. Re-partitioning a drive with data on it is perhaps the most risky operation you can perform on a hard drive. One little hiccup and all your data is toast. That said, iPartition does offer a unique feature set that may be useful to some people. Whether they can afford it is another matter. These days, with the economy in the tank, I suspect many people will be spending less on software than they did a year or two ago. iPartition's price point is definitely not in tune with the times.
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iPartition Commentary$50? Are they kidding? A tad pricey for something I might use once a year! - Version: 3.1.1, 2/20/2009 09:56PM PST

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Kudrabar
Isn't this app seriously overpriced? This 2-trick pony's (Coriolis System's) other trick -- iDefrag -- is also overpriced at $35. Ignoring for a moment the very well documented argument that defragmentation is quite unnecessary on an OSX startup disk unless you're constantly adding and deleting really giant files, I will grant that iDefrag works quite well. But it too is something I might use just once or twice a year. And at a cost of $35, I'd rather defrag my Mac manually by simply backing it up to a Firewire drive (which the Finder does contiguously -- without any fragmentation), and then restoring the backed-up data back to my startup disk -- again done contiguously. When I perform the backup to Firewire drive I can either backup just my user-created files using the Finder, or I can backup the whole volume using one of the many free/donate/shareware backup apps that can clone a startup disk. The absolutely fabulous and uncrippled donationware app (they ask for a $10 donation, but app is fully functional without it) Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.3 makes it very easy (and it's a great backup app too, as every Macevangelist, blogger, and magazine dedicated to Apple products agrees). Other very good ones are Synk Backup ($25), Synk Standard or Pro, and SuperDuper! ($27.95).

If $35 for a defragging app is excessive, then $50 for on-the-fly disk partitioning is surely more excessive -- unless you're a system admin. who does a ridiculous amount of on-the-fly disk partitioning, and I've never met such a person.
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