08-22-2007
Making a "Recovery Partition" ??
Hiya people..
I was hoping some expert here would share with me some details as I like to make a "System Recovery Partition" on a external drive. I use my MacBookPro on the road all the time and in the past it's known to happen, and often it happens at the worst time.
So, my question is:
Does anyone know how to make a boot-able recovery partition, allowing me to boot in OSX then reinstall OSX from this partition to the internal drive (assuming the hard drive hasn't died), along with all my applications.. I know some people make a backup of their system DVD.. but I don't wanna be carrying around a pile of DVD's.
I tried copying the System disks to the external drive, but when you click on the system install, it forces the system to restart... This is the bit at bugs me!
Other people have suggested i clone the system but my external drive is way smaller than the internal.. So a clone isn't a viable option. And, I'd sooner have a recovery partition, this way I have the option to rebuild the System, minus any bugs which might occur.
Thanks, in advance.
Last edited by Akira; 08-22-2007 at 11:20 PM..
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devinfo
devinfo(1M) System Administration Commands devinfo(1M)
NAME
devinfo - print device specific information
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/devinfo -i device
/usr/sbin/devinfo -p device
DESCRIPTION
The devinfo command is used to print device specific information about disk devices on standard out. The command can only be used by the
superuser.
OPTIONS
-i Prints the following device information:
o Device name
o Software version (not supported and prints as 0)
o Drive id number (not supported and prints as 0)
o Device blocks per cylinder
o Device bytes per block
o Number of device partitions with a block size greater than zero
-p Prints the following device partition information:
o Device name
o Device major and minor numbers (in hexadecimal)
o Partition start block
o Number of blocks allocated to the partition
o Partition flag
o Partition tag
This command is used by various other commands to obtain device specific information for the making of file systems and determining parti-
tion information. If the device cannot be opened, an error message is reported.
OPERANDS
device Device name.
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful operation.
2 Operation failed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
prtvtoc(1M), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 8 May 1997 devinfo(1M)