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

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