Partition changes

[Aslak Gronflaten]

Hi,

after upgrading my Mac, the new version of the OS decided to insert a Recovery HD partition into my partition map.

The problem is that this bumped my BOOTCAMP partition to number 5 - making it impossible to boot into Windows. (That's a feature, not a bug, yes yes)

My partition map is now as follows:

$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0

   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Lion                    100.3 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

   4:                        ZFS                         801.0 GB   disk0s4

   5:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                95.3 GB    disk0s5

Now, in order to be able to boot into windows again, my plan was to delete partition 3.

My question for this group is - whether that will affect my ZFS pool - which presumably will change to be number 3 after this.

Of course I will do full backups before attempting anything, but if my plan wouldn't work maybe I'll leave it be.

Thanks for any advice,

  Aslak

[Graham Perrin]

On Saturday, 29 March 2014 04:44:25 UTC, Aslak Gronflaten wrote:

 

… a feature, not a bug …

Apple's installer should not leave Boot Camp unusable, so I should treat it as an OS installation bug. I see "Lion" in the partition map … was the upgrade to Mavericks?

On topic: if the Apple_HFS slice is not protected with FileVault, then there should be no harm from removing the corresponding Apple_Boot slice.