Hi Nektarios, It's just fine to have a hard disk with 2 tb of storage, and then devide that into 2 or more partitions, or volumes. Of course, as you mentioned, if you have a 320 gb drive to back up to 1 of those volumes, then that volume's size need not be bigger than This 320 gb. This leaves you with some extra space, that you could turn into a 3rd partition if you want that. Partitions won't shrink or grow dynamically nor automatically though, so having a partition on your external backup drive, of which the size is equal to the volume being backed up to that, is a good idea.
Hth, Paul. On Oct 29, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Nektarios Mallas <nmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello guys. Well, I haven't done this before and I am a little nervous doing > it. > So I have 2 macs here. An Imac with 1 TB hard drive and a macbook pro with > 320 GB of space. I want to back them up both. > Is it ok if I purchase an external 2 TB hard disk, create 2 volumes there, > one for each mac, and then use those volumes to do this? Should each volume > be the same size with the hard drive? > What can I do with the extra space? > > Any help is very much appreciated. > > Nektarios. > > -- > 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.
