. Select the device in the sidebar, then click the Partition button. Internal storage devices appear under the Internal section in the sidebar. External devices appear under the External section in the sidebar. When you select a volume that already has data on it, the pie chart shows a shaded area representing the amount of data on the volume and an unshaded area representing the amount of free space available for another volume.
Disk Utility also reports whether the volume can be removed or resized. If you see a small volume with an asterisk, the partition is smaller than can be represented at the correct scale in the chart.
Usually the startup disk of your Mac OS X is Macintosh HD. This boot drive stores all the operating system files and is responsible for booting the machine. While starting up your Mac machine, hold down the ‘Option’ key and you will see all the operating system based partitions.
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Click the Add button. Disk Utility splits the volume into two, leaving the data in one volume, and creating a new, empty volume. If the existing volume is less than half-full, Disk Utility creates two volume of equal size.
Otherwise, it creates one volume large enough for the existing data, and another volume with the remaining space. Depending on the space available, you can create multiple volumes by selecting the new partition, then clicking the Add button. Click each volume in the pie chart on the left, then enter a name for it. For MS-DOS (FAT) and ExFAT volumes, the name must be eleven characters or less. Enter the size or drag the divider to increase or decrease the size of each volume.
For each volume, click the Format pop-up menu, then choose a format. Mac OS Extended (Journaled): Uses the Mac format (Journaled HFS Plus) to protect the integrity of the hierarchical file system. Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted): Uses the Mac format, requires a password, and encrypts the partition.
Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled): Uses the Mac format and is case sensitive to file and folder names. For example, folders named “Homework” and “HOMEWORK” are two different folders. Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled, Encrypted): Uses the Mac format, is case sensitive to folder names, requires a password, and encrypts the volume. MS-DOS (FAT): Use for Windows volumes that are 32 GB or less. ExFAT: Use for Windows volumes that are over 32 GB. Click Apply.
Click Show Details to view the step-by-step process of creating a new volume. When Disk Utility is finished creating the volumes, click Done. After you partition a storage device, an icon for each volume appears in both the Disk Utility sidebar and the Finder sidebar. Note: You can’t erase the device that contains your startup volume.
Enter a name for the initial volume. Click the Map pop-up menu, then choose a format for the initial partition. For MS-DOS and ExFAT partitions, the name must be eleven characters or less. GUID Partition Map: Used for all Intel-based Mac computers. Master Boot Record: Used for Windows partitions that will be formatted as MS-DOS (FAT) or ExFAT. Apple Partition Map: Used for compatibility with older PowerPC-based Mac computers. Click Erase, then click Done.
Darling is a project that aims to become analogous to wine. Currently it only runs some command-line OSX programs, though.
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As long as the developers of the OS X program released their source code and used cross-platform libraries (such as QT, GTK, X11, or WxWidgets) you should be able to re-compile an OS X program for linux. OS X and Linux are much more compatible at the API level than the ABI level. Implements the Cocoa APIs of NEXTStep and OS X. This only works on the source-code (API) level, so it works if a program is open-source and uses Apple's Cocoa GUI (NOT 'Aqua' which is proprietary).
Think of the API, or Application Programming Interface, as something like a car's dashboard - everything is visible to the driver of the car, and you can get into someone else's car and find his different dashboard just as easy to figure out. Think of the ABI, or Application Binary Interface, as the engine of the car - it can vary greatly between makes and models, and you probably won't be able to trade your Ford engine into a Volvo very easily. Darling would in this analogy be converting the Ford engine to a Volvo chassis, and compiling from source would be like just getting out of your Ford and getting into the Volvo. One is much simpler to do than the other. But Apple has some proprietary user interface libraries that no one else has, too.
If the developer used one of these (such as Aqua), you'll have to wait and hope that Darling grows up like Wine did, or port it yourself. If there is no source code released, it'd be like if the engine was made so that it could only possibly fit in a ford and no amount of work would ever change that, unless someone is an absolute insane maniac who has months of free time and ridiculous amount of dedication. Additionally, GNUStep is not 100% complete in terms of coverage of the Cocoa API's, so some shoehorning is likely still going to be necessary for complex programs. And GNUStep does not provide an xcode-equivalent build system - that is, if the original developer used the XCode IDE's 'build' system exclusively, you may be left writing makefiles for it.