new MacBook, no FireWire

[mkraft]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Do not make the partition the same size as the data: that's a huge mistake. Make a 60GB partition. Your data WILL grow: it always does.

OK thanks. I don't know whether it was clear that I was responding to the following in Chris Johnsen's post:

If your backup drive is significantly larger than your system drive, you might want to use more than one partition so you can use the extra space for other data (though you will want to back up this other data to some other device if the data is at all important). If you go with more than one partition, be sure to set the sizes appropriately. Make at least one of the partitions the same size as (or preferably a bit larger than) the volume you will be backing up.