Existing users, 
iPartition
Disk partitioning without initializing or reformatting.
Version: 3.2.0
iPartition but iPartiallyFormat
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: BernieSp Sunday, September 12 2004 @ 06:27 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
The partitioning works as advertised (you actually have to buy it to get it to work). However, my dreams of splitting an external firewire into a HFS+ and a FAT32 partition went unrewarded. It creates the partitions but can't format a partition in any Windoze format :(
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More iFormatExactlyWhatItSaysInTheDocumentation - Alastair_Houghton_882
We do make it clear in the documentation that iPartition only supports format and resize of HFS and HFS+ filesystems, so I think the criticism is slightly unfair in that respect.
More to the point, iPartition currently only supports Apple partition maps, whereas PCs require PC partition maps. As far as we know, there is no currently available utility capable of doing precisely what you want; the closest you can get is to use a PC partitioning utility to create a partition with the correct partition type for HFS+ and format it on a Mac, but then you won't be able to boot from the drive.
We do plan on adding support for PC partition maps (currently planned for version 1.2), which should make iPartition more useful for these sorts of purposes. Additionally, in the longer term, we would like to add support for PC filesystems, although last time we checked, Microsoft wanted excessive license fees for their NTFS documentation, so we probably won't be supporting NTFS any time soon.
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Tuesday, September 21 2004 @ 04:10 AM PDT