Of CHUCK REICHEL
Sent: Sunday, 28 August 2016 2:30 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: time machine "disc is to small" dialogue
Hi Simon,
I first erased and partitioned the glyph 2 gig as 2 partitions 1 tb and the
second was just about 1 tb.
Thats when things started to ti
hi,
The format should be MacOS Extended (Journaled), although if you got the
message wondering if you'd like it to be used as your Time Machine Backup
drive, then it's likely formatted correctly. Sounds like something is confused
in your OS. Try restarting your Mac and see if things right the
If you're backing up 600 GB of information, then one TB Drive would not be
enough for doing anything with a lot of changes. Perhaps, you want to look into
using one of the disk cloning software packages. Also, you didn't mention what
petition that style you used to partition the disk drive.
Bes
Hi Jonathan,
yes it was erased and formatted twice once as 2 partitions 1tb each.
> that didn't work so i erased it again and just left it at 2 tb and got the
> same results!
> my mac hd that i'm backing up has 621.04 GB on disk
I'd rather not use the whole 2 tb drive but at this point i just
Hi Simon,
I first erased and partitioned the glyph 2 gig as 2 partitions 1 tb and the
second was just about 1 tb.
Thats when things started to time machine whack out!
It said there wasn't enough space on one of those 1 tb partitions.
my mac hd that i'm backing up has 621.04 GB on disk
next i eras
Hi,
It wont have the space if it hasn’t been partitioned correctly or formatted to
the correct file system.
I would go into disk utilities and re partition the drive either as one or two
2 gives you the option of other drive space for storage rather than backup.
And 2. Make sure the partition
Is the 2 TB drive a clean disk? Perhaps erasing the partition might help.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Aug 26, 2016, at 4:39 PM, CHUCK REICHEL
> wrote:
>
> Hi List,
> I'm getting a time machine dialogue saying the disc chosen is to small even
> though its not!
> The disc i'm using fo
