How do I partition a drive with vo On Jul 9, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> The tricky bit is that Time Machine will continue to grow the size of the > backup set until it fills all available space. After that it prunes the > oldest stuff in prep for new backups. The end result is that if you don't > keep it on its own partition time machine will eventually use up the entire > 2TB drive and you won't have room for anything else. That also means you can > probably go way back in time to recover a deleted file, but that's probably > not your goal. Instead, I would partition that drive into two pieces. One for > Time machine and one for everything else. Generally I make my TM partitions > roughly 2 times the amount of data I have on my drive. My laptop has a 500GB > drive but I only have about 200GB or so on there, so I made the TM backup > partition 500GB. Then I use the rest of the space for other things. > > CB > > On 7/8/12 12:56 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote: >> My drive is connected via usb. >> >> On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:51 AM, rashantha de silva wrote: >> >>> Stacey >>> I assume you are using Time Machine for backups. You can store what you >>> like on the drive. To move your music look at iTunes prefs > Advanced tab >>> it will show the path to your music. Just google moving my itunes library >>> to an external drive. >>> >>> You haven't indicated how your 2tb is connected. That would be helpful. >>> >>> Hope that helps a bit. >>> >>> On Jul 8, 2012, at 6:22 AM, Stacey Robinson wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> I now have a drive for backing up my mac running SnowLeopard. I've backed >>>> it up successfully. >>>> This drive is a 2TB drive. Can I also store files on the drive such as >>>> music? >>>> Do I need to do something so that my backups are in a different place? >>>> If so what do I need to do and how do I do it? >>>> Step by step instructions are appreciated. >>>> Thanks, >>>> Stacey and GEB dog Chesley >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
