{"id":31371,"date":"2021-01-19T16:33:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31371"},"modified":"2021-01-20T16:35:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:35:30","slug":"how-to-reserve-time-machine-space-on-an-apfs-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/19\/how-to-reserve-time-machine-space-on-an-apfs-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reserve Time Machine Space on an APFS Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3603416\/how-to-reserve-time-machine-space-on-an-apfs-drive.html\">Glenn Fleishman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3603416\/how-to-reserve-time-machine-space-on-an-apfs-drive.html\"><p>What Apple appears to be saying is an APFS Time Machine volume requires a single container that takes up the entire disk&mdash;you can&rsquo;t add other containers, and that container has access to all the store space on the disk. Within that container lives a Time Machine volume. If you want to use the disk for other purposes, don&rsquo;t add a container; instead, use Apple&rsquo;s advice and <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/disk-utility\/add-erase-or-delete-apfs-volumes-dskua9e6a110\/mac\">add a volume within the existing container<\/a>.<\/p><p>That is limiting, because the Time Machine backup could eventually swell to fill the entire available storage in the container (and disk), crowding out the other volume or volumes you create.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/apfs-and-time-machine-in-big-sur\/\">APFS and Time Machine in Big Sur<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/03\/apfs-snapshots-and-large-files\/\">APFS Snapshots and Large Files<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/quantum-computing-and-apfs-free-and-used-space\/\">Quantum Computing and APFS: Free and Used Space<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Fleishman: What Apple appears to be saying is an APFS Time Machine volume requires a single container that takes up the entire disk&mdash;you can&rsquo;t add other containers, and that container has access to all the store space on the disk. Within that container lives a Time Machine volume. If you want to use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-01-19T21:33:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"33d23105-474e-4ba9-be04-86546228cb12","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-01-20T21:35:34Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AM9IxBUdOS6m-BIZUYijLEg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1395,146,30,1891,216],"class_list":["post-31371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31389,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31371\/revisions\/31389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}