In another case, if you are using a Seagate, WD My Passport or any other hard drive that you previously partitioned with another tool. If you are a Linux user or operating systems other than macOS, you probably use another tool.
Disk Utility only supports partition creation and formatting for Mac OS Extended (Journaled), exFAT, MS-DOS (FAT) and since MacOS High Sierra (10.13), it supports APFS. It supports creating, splitting, merging, resizing, deleting and formatting partitions on the hard disk.
Are you having trouble creating Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and APFS partitions using Disk Utility? If so, you can create a Mac OS Extended partition using GParted, then convert to APFS using Disk Utility.ĭisk Utility is a disk utility on macOS operating system.
