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Make a partition of an exact size for cloning
Authored by: Sven G on Dec 19, '07 08:16:26AM

BTW, Apple's Disk Utility usually creates an additional 128 MB of free space included in the partition size you specify: the exact reason for this maybe is unknown (for a future RAID? for a Linux Apple_Bootstrap, or even a /boot partition? for future file system features? for storing what? who knows...), but it has been so for a long time.



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Make a partition of an exact size for cloning
Authored by: Sven G on Dec 20, '07 12:59:50AM

Of course this was also said in the hint above, but in other ways. The "automatic" 128 MB free space is very useful, besides RAID, also to easily add an Apple_Bootstrap-type partition when you repartition your system to install Linux besides Mac OS X on PowerPC systems.



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