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Do I use Disk Utility? From what I recall, Time Machine will take over the whole thing.
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Do I use Disk Utility? From what I recall, Time Machine will take over the whole thing.

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I have a handy 4T external drive I formatted for my MacBook so I could use it as an external drive, Not a TimeMachine drive. But, Now, I wish to allocate part of the drive, for example 3T, for TimeMachine.<br><br>Is that possible?<br><br>If I must, I can remove 100% of the files on the disk for a reformatting, then copy back certain files to the 1T.<br><br>Thanks
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I have a handy 4T external drive I formatted for my MacBook so I could use it as an external drive, Not a TimeMachine drive. But, Now, I wish to allocate part of the drive, for example 3T, for TimeMachine.
Is that possible?
If I must, I can remove 100% of the files on the disk for a reformatting, then copy back certain files to the 1T.
Thanks

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