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2 partitions on SSD

My sister and I share a MacBook Air M1 (os 13.2.1). I would like to partition it roughly in half on a SSD so we each could back up our portion of data with Time Machine. Is this possible ?

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Posted on Feb 22, 2023 8:10 AM

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Posted on Feb 22, 2023 8:18 AM

I’d probably create a second login.

In general experience, partitioning too often tends to end in tears a d recriminations.

Backing up locally isn’t backing up. Not reliably. Same-device backups are far too likely to disappear should (if) the Mac fails, is lost, is dropped, stolen, etc. Time Machine ro an external HDD, or to a local NAS with Time Machine support if you have the budget for that, is preferred.

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Feb 22, 2023 8:18 AM in response to arktype

I’d probably create a second login.

In general experience, partitioning too often tends to end in tears a d recriminations.

Backing up locally isn’t backing up. Not reliably. Same-device backups are far too likely to disappear should (if) the Mac fails, is lost, is dropped, stolen, etc. Time Machine ro an external HDD, or to a local NAS with Time Machine support if you have the budget for that, is preferred.

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Feb 22, 2023 8:30 AM in response to MrHoffman

I didn’t mention, we do have separate logins. Initially she was the admin and later I somehow became admin also (I’m not sure how that was accomplished).

From what I read today an HDD would be less expensive than an SSD so we could have separate HHD’s.

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