Hi, the best way to do this is through disc utility. Bring up disc utility, select your external hard drive, select the partition tab and follow the instructions. It will ask you how many partitions and what sizes and formats you want. Hope this helps! Jeff
On 2/7/15, Anouk Radix <radix.an...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have a 2 gb external hd which is now one big partition, its mac os x > extended journal format. > I want to preserve part of it for data storage and use a 250gb part for > carbon opy cloner. > What is the best way to go about this? > thanks, > Greetings, Anouk, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.