External Drive Partitioning

cu3ed

cu3ed

cu3ed

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Hey, got a 1tb drive to back up my iMac and MBP (imac is 500gb and the MBP has a 320gb drive), when the drive arrived I was in a hurry and partitioned the drive to teh same amounts of memory for each HD, obviously time machine compresses somewhat and would like to reclaim the space not being used.

I remember setting it up it was like the sliders to how much each partion was, can I go back to that to reduce earch partition to give me a larger Free Space section?

Does this make any sense?:confused:
 
I don't think Time Machine does compress as it backs up, I've just manually copied files from a TM volume in the past without having to decompress them.

I don't know 100% whether you can resize partitions on the fly within disk utility, but I don't think so. I'm sure someone will confirm or ridicule me soon though :)
 
Ahh thanks feek, I didt know, I just assumed, reasons behind it is I was installing Windows 7 into boot camp so wanted to free up internal memory as I was taking about 120gb from it for the Windows Partition, so was hoping to free up more the free space on the external drive, checking again thho theirs about 180 gb left over on the drive which is more than I thought so will leave it for now.
 
Just so you're aware you don't need to partition the drive into separate HFS+ partitions if using Time Machine on multiple Macs with one HDD. They'll each be given a named folder inside the Backups.backupsdb folder :)
 
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