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Originally Posted by chris_johnsen
- Select the disk in Disk Utility. Disks are not indented, volumes are.
- Select the Partition tab. If you do not see "Partitions" but do see "RAID", then you have a volume selected, not the whole disk. Go back to step 1.
- Click the Options… button.
- Select GUID Partition Table.
- Click OK.
- Under Volume Scheme, select "1 Partition".
- Under Volume Information, give the volume a name, and specify the format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). (HFS+ is "Mac OS Extended")
- Click the Partition button.
- After reading and understanding the message that says all the data on the drive will be destroyed, click the Partition button in the sheet that dropped down in front of the main window.
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Great, thanks a lot & sorry I missed that GUID=GPT in your earlier reply.
I have 23-25 GB to back up on a 60 GB HD. If I partition the drive so that only @ 25GB is reserved for the backup, when the contents of the source drive grow so that I need more space to back it up, will it be possible to re-partition the backup drive without losing the existing backup on that drive?
(I know I would have to back up any data in the non-backup partition, since some or all of it would be overwritten by the new backup, but I would like not to lose the existing backup until I'm sure that the new backup has completed without any problems. I also realize I'd have to back up to a different HD once the size of the then-current back up grows to the point that both it and the existing backup will no longer fit on the backup drive.)
Also, do separate backups stored on the same hard drive require separate partitions?
Thanks again.