This is kind of hard for me to explain so I'll do my best.
I have an external hard drive enclosure via eSATA with 2 hard drives inside. They are 1.5GB each for a total of 3TB. I've been running this harddrive as a SPAN so that I could just have Time Machine running across both drives. This has been fine, but I've been wanting to switch it to a RAID 1 since 1.5GB was actually plenty to cover what I needed. Therefore the Time Machine would be 1.5GB and the second hard drive would just mirror that as a back up of my Time Machine.
So I tried to reformat the entire drive, and first, it sat at "shrinking filesystem" for hours with no activity. I ended up quitting that and trying something else. Then I umounted it via Disk Utility before I tried reformatting again and it hung at "unmounting volume..." *sigh*
So I kind of gave up. But now, when I do "Get Info" on my Time Machine, it says it is nearly full at 2.97TB. Before, it was at some odd 1.47TB (half). In Disk Utility, if I check the Time Machine drive it shows it is mirrored (Which I never did) but the RAID set shows Concatenated (Which is what I originally intended this drive to be for).
What the hell!?
Even Drive Genius won't reformat this drive. This is turning out worse than I expected and I have no clue what to do. In reality, I'd love to just completely wipe my Time Machine and start again but how the hell do I do that safely?
Any help is appreciated, I really wanted this to be an easy reformat but somehow this get screwed up and I really don't understand it = /
I have an external hard drive enclosure via eSATA with 2 hard drives inside. They are 1.5GB each for a total of 3TB. I've been running this harddrive as a SPAN so that I could just have Time Machine running across both drives. This has been fine, but I've been wanting to switch it to a RAID 1 since 1.5GB was actually plenty to cover what I needed. Therefore the Time Machine would be 1.5GB and the second hard drive would just mirror that as a back up of my Time Machine.
So I tried to reformat the entire drive, and first, it sat at "shrinking filesystem" for hours with no activity. I ended up quitting that and trying something else. Then I umounted it via Disk Utility before I tried reformatting again and it hung at "unmounting volume..." *sigh*
So I kind of gave up. But now, when I do "Get Info" on my Time Machine, it says it is nearly full at 2.97TB. Before, it was at some odd 1.47TB (half). In Disk Utility, if I check the Time Machine drive it shows it is mirrored (Which I never did) but the RAID set shows Concatenated (Which is what I originally intended this drive to be for).
What the hell!?
Even Drive Genius won't reformat this drive. This is turning out worse than I expected and I have no clue what to do. In reality, I'd love to just completely wipe my Time Machine and start again but how the hell do I do that safely?
Any help is appreciated, I really wanted this to be an easy reformat but somehow this get screwed up and I really don't understand it = /