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I bought an M1 MacBook Air and I want to partition the drive before anything else. Where is Recovery Mode? Is this no longer possible? Must I set up the machine first?
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
Again - I figured out the question in my OP. (I wrote yesterday, “Managed to get into Disk Utility.” The reason for my confusion was that after I clicked on options, I (incorrectly) thought I was in a loop because I was again at language choice.) I did NOT have to set it up first.
I’ve no choice but to run Big Sur on this M1.
I nondestructively repartitioned it back to two partitions (visible / not counting the tiny ones) and it seems to be OK. 10.15 won’t run on Apple silicon and I guess I can try 11.1 Beta, both on the main APFS partition, and have the other one for toying with other OSes that DO run on the M1, or whatever.
HWTech- I had roughly the same experience. “You must try it multiple times to accomplish the task.” but even after several tries (w/Catalina) the best I could get was the 6 partitions I wanted, but even then, never would everything check out as healthy in First Aid.
Appreciate all the discussion. 🖖
(I personally dislike it)
It will never be on my daily task machine; I'd rather not be "up to date". But I've got it on the MBA to test it.
Try disk utility. I think macOS only allows 2 partition, though.
I guess I can try 11.1 Beta
Just a word of caution in advance: once you are running the beta, any discussion relating to it is not allowed here. The hosts will remove it.
How do I partition the drive?
