On Nov 5, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote:

>       Is it possible to re-partition a disk without erasing everything and
> starting over?
>
>       Wilton

It depends on what it is you want to do. If you did partition your  
existing drive into 80 G and a  179 G volumes, and want to actually  
accomplish the backup scheme originally discussed (small clone for  
bootability, large time machine for recovery of deleted files), you  
can do this:

Turn off Time Machine.

Rename the volumes to the opposite of what they were.

Copy the Time Machine data over to the larger partition

Turn ON time machine and see if it uses the newly renamed volume with  
the backups to back up.

If so, you can erase the small volume and use it for your CCC or  
SuperDuper bootable clone.

Note I'm not sure Time Machine will work like this, which is why I'm  
suggesting copying the data instead of moving it.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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