Mac operating system is one of the safest and secure operating system allows you to partition its hard disk. You can use disk partitions for numerous purposes like storing one or more backups of same data on different partitions. One of the best thing about disk partitioning is that you can install one or more operating system on same Mac computer. Like, you can easily install Windows operating system on Mac hard disk and run both operating system. Disk partition is quite a helpful feature when its comes to store large amount of data on system.
At the same time, you can also perform various disk related operations like resizing, modifying, deleting, formatting and other operations. Whenever you feel the need to increase or decrease the size, create more partitions or delete any partitions, change permissions of a particular volume, you can modify a particular volume or partition. However, there are some risk are involved in such activity like - If you have not created any backup of your data and then you lost data while modifying volume, losing the entire data can be a disaster for you.