Thank you very much. I will do just that. You see, Apple sent me an email telling me that my internal hard drive on my Imac may be defective and needs replacement. They will do it free of charge, they say. I can't see something wrong with it, but I will doit any way.
Regards. Nektarios. On Oct 29, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
