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Partition the System disk without earsing the OS during application deployment

  • July 6, 2021
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Hello all,
Hope you all doing safe and well.

Is there any payload or workflow that can be used to add a partition to a system disk (Macintosh HD) for storing temporary data for students. I want to do this during application deployment to our labs. I am do this by erasing the whole disk and partitioning and then installing OS in one of the volumes and leaving the other one for data, but I want to ignore erasing the disk as it is time consuming.
I believe there is a command line that can be use (diskutil) but I can’t find the arguments that I can use to add partition without erasing the disk.
Thanks for your help in advance. Most probably the method that I will use will be mixture of intel and Apple Silicon computers.