Can backup to (new) external drive - says disk nearly full

I just got a new seagate 5TB drive, but time machine won't use it complaining that it is nearly full. Tried completely reformatting as mac os journaled. No joy. What is wrong?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 25, 2022 4:07 PM

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Owl-53

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Jun 26, 2022 2:41 AM in response to mariazack

And Time Machine Backup Utility will what to Control the Entire Drive.

Further suggest formatting the Entire Drive to the APFS / GUID Format.

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