Reinstalling OS X -- even over an existing 10.10 install -- will trigger the installer to recreate the recovery partition. A downside is that you have to wait to reinstall OS X all over again.

To limit a user to 10GB of space as a hard limit that the user cannot go above, change the "hard = 0" value in the upper line to "hard = 10000000000" (10GB defined in the decimal system that OS X ...

If you remember in Android 7.0, Google introduced a new feature called " Seamless Updates." This setup introduced a dual system partition scheme—a "System A" and "System B" partition.

Double-click to launch it. GParted is a powerful partition editor that lets you shrink, expand, split, create and format partitions without disturbing the operating system already installed on a disk.

Click the Plus button to add a new partition to your disk, and then decide how large you'd like that partition to be. I find that 30 to 40GB is more than enough for the operating system and my ...

In a recent post on OS X Lion's hidden recovery partition, I demonstrated that Disk Utility can show these hidden partitions, and some people have wondered exactly how to do this.