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petisjioweelsha

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Original poster
Nov 7, 2011
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So, my boot drive is one single volume which has FileVault successfully enabled, meaning that there is obviously a recovery partition on the drive.
I then used Disk Utility to add a partition, and then I cloned the existing volume to the new partition with SuperDuper.
I started up from the newly cloned volume and went to enable FileVault, but it gave me the error, "Some disk formats don't support the recovery partition required by encryption.To use encryption, reinstall this version of Mac OS X on a reformatted disk."

Which seems ridiculous since there is obviously a recovery partition on the drive from the existing FileVault volume. I used whatever the defaults were in Disk Utility on El Capitan when I created the new partition (probably GUID, I think)

Whatever happened to 'It Just Works...?"
 
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