> I have never seen or heard of an operting system jumping partitions,
> nor
> do I have any idea what that would mean -- the System Folder removing
> itself from Partition A and installing itself on Partition B?
It means that something running on partition A could write to partition
B, corrupting it. Since the OS enforces the partition boundaries,
anything
catestrophic happening to the OS might plausibly allow a write to go
outside
the intended partition. This (might) reveal itself as one OS's
partition
being hosed, but how would you know that it hadn't hosed itself
previously?
I've never seen a Mac do anything like that, and you'd have to inspect
things with a file system debugger or something to even suspect it had
happened, since it would probably just look like random crap scattered
around.
Regards,
Mike
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