TITLE
    Drive Setup: What Is The Patch Partition? (8/96)
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8/23/96
8/23/96
TOPIC


    When I formatted my hard drive with Apple's Drive Setup utility, the partition list shows something called a patch partition. What is it?

DISCUSSION


    Drive Setup 1.0 was introduced with the Power Macintosh 9500/120 and 9500/132. These computers were the first Macintosh computers to support disk volume sizes larger than 4 GB. The "Apple_Patches" partition is required to provide this support.

Document Information
Product Area: Apple Software
Category: Utility Software
Sub Category: Hard Disk Setup Software

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