What is the best way to partitioning Macbook Air 13" 2012 solid state drive

What is the best way to partitioning Macbook Air 13" 2012 solid state drive.

Tech,
You don't provide enough information onto which anyone could reasonably formulate an answer.
As mentioned, you don't indicate the circumstances that would warrant consideration of multiple partitions. Moreover, you also don't indoicate the size of the SSD in question.
Like Fred said, ordinarily you leave it alone as one. Some people like to keep data and the OS/apps separate, but it is for specific reasons.

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