![]() ![]() However, Time Machine automatically purges older files and attempts to keep itself to a reasonable size, while still offering significant points to revert to. 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. If you want to use the disk for other purposes, don’t add a container instead, use Apple’s advice and add a volume within the existing container. Within that container lives a Time Machine volume. What Apple appears to be saying is an APFS Time Machine volume requires a single container that takes up the entire disk-you can’t add other containers, and that container has access to all the store space on the disk. That’s a little confusing, isn’t it? (A few readers have written in wondering what it means, in fact.) As explained in the column referenced above, Big Sur adds a new “role,” or volume type, called “Backup.” But, as Apple additionally notes in the Big Sur manual, that Time Machine volume requires the entire disk. However, a disk used for Time Machine backups is quite particular.
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