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IIRC it does the wipe via the recovery boot, so wiping that partition would kill it. BUT: you'd be hosed if you ever needed recovery, you wouldn't be able to u
by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
IIRC it does the wipe via the recovery boot, so wiping that partition would kill it.
BUT: you'd be hosed if you ever needed recovery, you wouldn't be able to use full-disk encryption, and there's likely other bits of the OS that would break in subtle and interesting ways without it there. Tread _very_ carefully.
- yen223 14y agoAs long as you have a recovery USB, you'll be fine.
- ben1040 14y ago>IIRC it does the wipe via the recovery boot, so wiping that partition would kill it. Isn't this not an option in relatively recent Macs, which have the recovery functionality baked into the EFI firmware and not as a partition on the disk? Newer Macs have that functionality out of the box, and a bunch from 2010 and early 2011 that did not originally ship with the recovery firmware ended up getting it later via update: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4904 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4904
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoThat's 'Internet Recovery', which is just enough to fire up WLAN and grab a recovery image to netboot from in the event your disk is totally unreadable. Unlikely it'd still be able to trigger a wipe this way. Recovery itself is still it's own partition (from my mid-2011 Air): apaulin:~/ $ diskutil list [13:38:41] /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 120.5 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3