Time Machine and external Hard drive...space usage?

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  1. MatrixPrime, Nov 26, 2007

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    I would like to purchase an external hard drive for use with Time Machine, but I would also like to use half of the available space for dumping video from my video camera. Can you partition the external hard drive in such a way to do this, or does Time Machine require use of the entire hard drive?
     
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  2. adamfishercox, Nov 26, 2007

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    You don't have to partition at all. Time Machine makes its own folder, completely separate from anything else on the drive.
     
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  3. macfreek57, Nov 26, 2007

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    Apple describes how Time Machine works in the Time Machine preference pane. It says that that eventually Time Machine stops saving weekly backups when the disk is full. You might want to watch out for that. Time Machine will take up all of the free space that you leave it.
     
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  4. adamfishercox, Nov 27, 2007

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    But it will not overwrite other files on the drive.
     
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  5. emptyCup, Nov 27, 2007

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    No, but the OP wants to allocate half the drive to video. In order to keep half the drive free, he will have to partition it. Also, this other partition will not be backed up.
     
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  6. adamfishercox, Nov 27, 2007

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    Good point.
     
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  7. Samwise592, Nov 28, 2007

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    I just created a blank disk image of the space that i didnt want time machine to use
     
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