HDD Partition Help

[MaskedPhantom]

I have a 1.5 TB external hard drive that I use for Time Machine for my Macbook's drive (one partition) and as storage (another partition). I have it set so that the TM partition will also backup the storage partition as well. Is there any point in doing this, or am I just wasting space? Is it possible for one partition to fail, but not the other one?

Thank you.

 

[Kevster89]

I think you are wasting space. I find it unlikely that one partition would fail, while the other one, more or less, "survives."

Normally either the entire external hard-drive will function or the entire thing will fail.

 

[MaskedPhantom]

I think you are wasting space. I find it unlikely that one partition would fail, while the other one, more or less, "survives."

Normally either the entire external hard-drive will function or the entire thing will fail.

All right, thank you. Is there a way to change the sizes of the partitions? To add on to my storage drive and take away from the Time Machine one?