Time Machine Experts/HDD People!

[The Boosh!]

Y0!

Im looking at collecting a stash of films now, IE putting all my films onto a hard drive.

I currently back my macbook up to a 500gb hard drive, which is partitioned 400gb to my macbook and 100gb in the FAT32 format (for windows purposes).

Anywho,

Is there anyway I can re partition my HDD, 250gb to time machine and 250gb for films without loosing all my time machine backups?

Bit confused, so any help appreciated.

Luke

 

[sn00p]

Time machine just creates a sparse disk image on the drive (in folders because you can backup more than one machine to the same time machine backup disk), when it does a backup it mounts the sparse image (dmg) and then does its magic.

There shouldn't be a problem resizing the partitions as long as the new partition that holds the sparse image is bigger than the size of the sparse image.

 

[The Boosh!]

Snoop, would you mind providing me with a bit of a mini guide about how I do this? I know how to partition a disk (disk utility) but im not sure how I do it without deleting everything.

 

[Christopher]

I was going to try an explain what snoop did, but in a far more complicated, but less technical way. LOL.

But yeah, do that.

 

[sn00p]

Snoop, would you mind providing me with a bit of a mini guide about how I do this? I know how to partition a disk (disk utility) but im not sure how I do it without deleting everything.

You can resize the HFS partition like this:

http://osxdaily.com/2009/11/20/resize-partitions-in-mac-os-x-with-disk-utility/

Not sure about the FAT32 partition, never resized one, you may need to backup and then recreate the FAT32 partition and then put the stuff back that you copied off.

 

[The Boosh!]

I'm sackin off the fat 32 format. Should make it a little easier!

 

[sn00p]

I'm sackin off the fat 32 format. Should make it a little easier!

Good man! Should be a doddle now.