Overpriced for what it does..
The author should bundle both iDefrag & iPartition for under $40.
I can't justify paying over $50 for this.
With that said, it works as advertised. I went from having 4 partitions with various OSes down to a HFS+ & NTFS partition without losing any data.
You must absolutely compact files with iDefrag prior to growing or shrinking a partition or you can kiss your partitions good bye. Mac OS X handles fragmentation fine with very little performance hit. That doesn't mean your volumes aren't fragmented.
Someone several posts below claimed he was able to change the partition map from Apple to GUID on a drive without losing data. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you will lose all data if you intend to use the drive for booting, as a bootable GUID map needs 200 MB reserved for EFI at the beginning of the disc. It may work for an external non bootable drive. I still wouldn't recommend it.
I wouldn't touch diskutil to do this with a ten ft pole. This app on the other hand is easy to use in comparison.
iPartition
Disk partitioning without initializing or reformatting.
Version: 3.2.0
Good at what it does..
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: mkultra Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
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Developer Response - chris104
>You must absolutely compact files with iDefrag prior to growing or>shrinking a partition or you can kiss your partitions good bye.
This shouldn't be necessary. iPartition will automatically do this in all but the most extreme circumstances. Even when it can't, it will just ask you to run iDefrag Lite.
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but you will lose all data if you intend to use
>the drive for booting,
You won't lose your data when you convert from one partition scheme to another. There are issues with booting that you should be aware of but that's usually why you want to change schemes. These issues are covered in iPartition's Help.
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