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I have a Lacie 500GB drive arriving today, and Leopard is sitting on my desk waiting to be installed this weekend as well (I currently have Tiger 10.4.10 on my MBP). I'm planning to do an Erase-and-Install to make sure the new OS works well, so prior to that I want to be able to move several things (e.g., my iTunes Library) permanently onto the Lacie. I don't want or need Windows machines to access this drive ... it's intended solely for use with the MBP.
Here's the source of my concern: I also want to partition this drive in two chunks and use one part of it (maybe 200GB?) for Time Machine after Leopard is installed, while continuing to use the remainder for things like my iTunes library, multimedia projects, etc, which I need to move to that drive BEFORE Leopard has been installed. I'd like to know how (or if) I can set up the partitions while I'm still running Tiger to allow me to easily switch the one partition over to Time Machine's use after Leopard is installed, without having to affect the iTunes Library and other data that will already be on the Lacie's other partition by that point.
Any thoughts? Am I worrying about this too much? (I've never formatted a disk for the Mac world before, having been a long time PC guy, so I'm not sure what to expect.)
Here's the source of my concern: I also want to partition this drive in two chunks and use one part of it (maybe 200GB?) for Time Machine after Leopard is installed, while continuing to use the remainder for things like my iTunes library, multimedia projects, etc, which I need to move to that drive BEFORE Leopard has been installed. I'd like to know how (or if) I can set up the partitions while I'm still running Tiger to allow me to easily switch the one partition over to Time Machine's use after Leopard is installed, without having to affect the iTunes Library and other data that will already be on the Lacie's other partition by that point.
Any thoughts? Am I worrying about this too much? (I've never formatted a disk for the Mac world before, having been a long time PC guy, so I'm not sure what to expect.)