• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment

    Imaging and OS X Lion Recovery Partitions

    The Recovery Partition that comes in Lion seems to be getting in my way when I’m trying to build images. This was fixed in the latest build of DeployStudio (rc127) but, given that my DeployStudio, Casper Imaging Server and SIU environments act as my recovery partition for the most part, I just tossed it. If you do remove the recovery partition then you won’t be able to use FileVault. If that’s not an issue, first get the disk identifier: diskutil list When you see the entry, which should look something like disk0s4 (in fact that’s what I’ll use for this example), then remove it: diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ UntitledBlob /dev/disk0s4 If…