Why there are two recovery partitions?, Why there are two recovery partitions?
I bought a MacookPro from Mid 2012 and it was installed Mac Lion.
After several upgrades, is is currently install Mac Mavericks.
I and trying to install BootCamp on my Mac but I found a weird thing on the partition schema that it has 2 recovery partition.
The disk layout is as follow:
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD21 321.3 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS HDD2-2 677.2 GB disk0s4
5: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 700.0 MB disk0s5
In other to install BootCamp, I need to make my disk as a single partition.
That means I need to delete the HDD2-2 partition and merge it into the Macintosh HDD21.
As what I read in some other discusssions, after installing BootCamp, I can split the Macintosh HDD21 again to make a Data partition as is is now (HDD2-2). However, the number of partitions must not be more than 4 partitions. This means if I have 2 recovery partitions, I cannot do this.
I wonder why I have two recovery partitions? Can I delete one of them? If yes, which can be deleted?
Thanks.
Macbook Pro 7.1, Mac OS X (10.6.3)