On Apr 3, 4:07 pm, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > So long as you don't need the ability to go back and get an earlier > version of a file, demote it from being a time machine drive, erase it > and add it as the new time machine drive.
I thought Time Machine would self-manage the drive so that the oldest data would get overwritten in FIFO. No?? > > If you wish to expand your time machine back up, get a larger drive, > stop time machine, clone your existing Time Machine to it, and restart > time machine with the new drive. > > Or wait impatiently for Apple to get off their butts and make ZFS a > bootable, standardized system, then when you run out of space, you > just toss more disks into the mix. Wondering what is ZFS, I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS Al Poulin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
