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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rbpeirce" data-source="post: 1948763" data-attributes="member: 410088">I think I understand.  The terminology was confusing.  In DU, partition really means container in APFS format so you are still dealing with one single drive without hard partitions.  Very confusing.  However, I c an still treat them as partitions from a user standpoint.I saw the ability to restrict Time Machine size when I created them on the new disk.  I was not aware of that capability before.  I must have missed it.  I alway assumed Time Machine would expand to fill the available space.  Anyhow, i now have fixed size containers [partitions] so I'm not going to go back to change it.  However, this may be why Apple doesn't think you really need to split disks.</blockquote>