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After I installed mac lion I have a 200mb partition in front of my main install. It's says it's a GPT (Protective Partition)
. I would really like to get rid of this. I hate having my disk partitioned at all.
If I boot to a linux live and just wipe it will it mess up my mac install?
Thanks for the help!
What if I select the partition I wold like to boot from manually on startup every time I boot. Then could I delete it? – None – 2012-06-26T05:11:47.247
@KeeganMcCarthy: This has nothing to do with selecting the partition to boot from. The system expects this partition to exist, so you should not delete the partition. – bwDraco – 2012-06-26T05:13:55.950
Also, I've heard that some species of OSX keep maintenance/pre-boot utilities there. Getting rid of it is a bad idea. Besides, even if you "hate having your disk partitioned at all", it's still partitioned if you have just one main OS partition: the partition table is still the same size, there's still an area before the first partition that contains the bootloader, etc etc. There's really not much different, and quite a lot can (and, as @DragonLord says, probably will) go wrong if you delete the extra partition. – Zac B – 2012-06-26T19:17:12.247