Hi Toby, Tried reducing the scratch partition as there is not much on there, that was easy, but disk utility will not let me increase the size of the back up volume.
Beats me, Steve. On 30 May 2012, at 10:34, Toby Leighton wrote: > You can in a fiddly kind of way, You'll have to make one smaller first, and > then the other one bigger. > > You are limited to a degree by how much data is saved in each partition. If > the partitions are empty you can set them to be almost any size, if they are > full of data then the partition boundarys have to be "around" the data. > > On 30 May 2012 10:21, Steve Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am running Snow Leopard and have run out of space on my stand alone hard > drive for running time machine back ups. > > I have a 1TB drive which was partitioned roughly 50/50 one partition for back > ups, the other as a scratch disk. > > However, since increasing the size of my iMac drive a few moths ago and > adding more software, time machine is now telling me I need over 500 GB in > order to back up. > > I have been into disk utility to look at changing the size of the partitions > and while I can make either partition smaller, it will not let me increase > the size of a partition. > > Q: Is there a way to do this? > > Thanks, > > Steve. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
