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Copy a Recovery Partition
Authored by: prwiding on May 12, '14 09:12:19AM
Carbon Copy Cloner (bombich.com) -- which has a free trial period -- provides a Disk Center which will copy a recovery Partition and create it on a disk that doesn't have one. If you do an Install Mavericks on an external drive, you can use that drive to re-create the recovery partition on an internal drive. Without cloning or affecting any other partitions.

This hint is quite true. In addition, you can install Mavericks on the SSD before creating the Fusion drive, and it will install a Recovery partition on the SSD. Then just refer to the partition that isn't the recovery partition when you create the Fusion drive.

I have installed a 240 GB SSD, and created 2 partitions: FusionToBe (179 GB) and AltBoot (60 GB). If you run diskutil list from a Terminal window, it will show you the device names. For this example, /dev/disk0s2 and /dev/disk0s3. You can then refer to /dev/disk0s2 when creating the Fusion drive, and /dev/disk0s3 will still be useable as a separate boot drive, if you hold the Option key down during startup. This still provides a larger SSD volume than Apple provided Fusion drives.

Edited on May 12, '14 09:26:05AM by prwiding


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