Mystery internal HD partition
Hey all,
As a novice Mac user I recently purchased a 15" MBP with 100 GB hard drive. I wanted to trial bootcamp, but when I consulted Disk Utility it shows that I have two existing partitions.
The first is Macintosh HD (Mac OS Ext Journaled, 72.7 GB).
The second 'mystery' partition is disk0s3 (Apple_KFS 20 GB).
It is not mounted, doesn't seem to respond to any actions (won't mount) and I don't know what it is for. The only thing that I can think of is that it is an Apple swap file, but 20GB seems very large on a 100 GB HD.
Can anyone help me with whether this is a default on new MBP hard disks, what it might be and whether it can be reformatted as a winXP partition with Bootcamp.
Thanks in advance.
Mac Book Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6) 15" 2.16 GHz - 100 GB @ 5400 RPM
As a novice Mac user I recently purchased a 15" MBP with 100 GB hard drive. I wanted to trial bootcamp, but when I consulted Disk Utility it shows that I have two existing partitions.
The first is Macintosh HD (Mac OS Ext Journaled, 72.7 GB).
The second 'mystery' partition is disk0s3 (Apple_KFS 20 GB).
It is not mounted, doesn't seem to respond to any actions (won't mount) and I don't know what it is for. The only thing that I can think of is that it is an Apple swap file, but 20GB seems very large on a 100 GB HD.
Can anyone help me with whether this is a default on new MBP hard disks, what it might be and whether it can be reformatted as a winXP partition with Bootcamp.
Thanks in advance.
Mac Book Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6) 15" 2.16 GHz - 100 GB @ 5400 RPM
