On Dec 16, 2012, at 7:58 PM, LuKreme wrote: > Macs R We spake on Sunday 16-Dec-2012@17:41:53 >> Lion and Mountain Lion both create "hidden" recovery partitions. If I keep >> an external drive with Lion in one partition and Mountain Lion in another, >> are their respective recovery partitions going to collide? > > I'm not sure what you mean by 'collide' but the Recovery Partition will be > 10.8. (As I understand it, 10.7 will not overwrite an existing recovery > partition, and 10.8 will update a Recovery Partition to 10.8).
As long as a 10.8 recovery partition will correctly service the 10.7 OS partition on the same drive, I suppose it wouldn't be a problem, but will it? Right of the top of my head, I suspect things like Repair Permissions would get wonky, probably some other things. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk