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Simple question about partitioning
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good question? While we are on that topic, I did a time machine on an external before installing Lion. Can I plug that external in and do another time machine or will it over write my Snow Leopard. I am asking will I lose SL if I do another TM back up on the same external. Not trying to high jack your thread Kahnyl.
Yes. Been there. Done that. I don't remember for sure but I think it deleted the Recovery HD as well.
The recovery partition is hidden so you must have done more than a simple partition manipulation .
Lion's Disk Utility tries to make it easy but here's the sequence that I think fails.
1 - Normal install of Lion on drive creates Recovery HD
2 - Split Lion partion in two - DU moves Recovery HD between visible partitions.
3 - Install Lion on 2nd partition - it doesn't create a Recovery HD since one already exists on drive.
4 - Delete 1st partition - DU removes Recovery HD as well.
I will give it a try and report back.
----update---- Tried it and installing Lion in 2nd partition does create a second Recovery HD. So deleting the 1st partition also deletes the corresponding Recovery HD so leaves the 2nd one fine. Then creating a new first partition and then copying the 2nd Lion to it also recreates a Recovery HD for it. Apple did a good job on this and covered all of the bases. I must have screwed up something else the last time I tried this.
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Both Lion and SL are supposed to ask before doing anything with an existing TM backup. Just to be sure you can re-name your Mac which will force it to save to a different directory leaving the existing alone.
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