mlmorg Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Hi all, I have a mac mini and an external drive. My external has a lot of extra files not on my mac mini; however, I'd like to set up time machine for the files on the mac mini to back up to the external. So, I need to partition the external drive non-destructively so that I don't lose the important files on my external. Is there a way to do this, and is it 100% safe? Thanks, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elviejo Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 You don't need to do that if the drive is already formated as HFS+ (journaled), Time Machine don't erase nothing, what it does is create a folder Backups.backupdb where he store all the backups; if the drive isn't hfs+ you are going to need a commercial program to do that or use bootcamp and see if it can access that driver make the partition (it's going to be MBR) and before reboot format that partition with disk utility as hfs+. Good luck and tell us the result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlmorg Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 Wow great, did not know that. It did exactly like you said...backed up into a folder on the external and kept all my other files intact. Thanks very much, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elviejo Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Glad to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape311 Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Also, Leopard DOES have non-destructive partitioning from what I've seen in Disk Utility. I resized my Leopard partition to create a new partition for a Tiger install. It worked beautifully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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