Extend a time machine partition

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Hey everyone,

This might be a stupid question, but I’m really new to the whole thin provisioning idea. I followed some guides to create a time machine partition of 500GB, in order to keep time machine from filling up all space on the drobo. The rest of the drobo is in one big partition.

Now I would like to have another mac on my network backed up to the drobo. I would love to do this on the same time machine partition, in a second sparsebundle.
Is it possible to extend the 500GB time machine partition to 750GB or even 1TB? If so, how would I best accomplish this? Are there any tools for this in the drobo dashboard or just using Disk Utility in OSX?

Regards,
Jan

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If you repartition a Drobo device drive using a third-party utility (including OS utilities), you risk losing the data on the drive.

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Okay, so no safe way to do this, at all?

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Migrate your data and reformat to the larger partition/volume sizes you desire.

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Why not just put the second sparsebundle into the other partition, and point Time Machine at that?