Partition on MBP 13" with mavericks

I"ve MBP 13" mid 2010, installed win7 with bootcamp on 500GB HDD. I've mavericks and win7 on 250GB each. i want to create additional partitions each one in osx & windows for data storage. Please recommend the procedure.
P.S.- New user to osx.
Thanks.

You can not, don't even try.
Use an external drive instead

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It is Thu Oct 24 08:32:28 MDT 2013.
< Thu 8:32am ~ > diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Tesla                   499.2 GB   disk0s2

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http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/10/22/perform-clean-install-os-x-mavericks/
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This is what I did, which worked perfectly and required very little attention. It is almost automatic, fail proof and done in under an hour (with a fast internet connection to download Mavericks at just over 5GB).
1.- Back up the system. Better still, clone your system to an external HD using Carbon Copy Cloner.
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6.- Go for a walk. In about 45 min your system will have restarted Mavericks and all your settings, applications and data will be there.
7.- Check that you now have a Recovery HD by restarting the system, holding the Option key down when you hear the startup gong. You'll (hopefully) see the system HD and the Recovery HD (10.9).
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