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astrange on July 21, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

The recovery partition doesn't need to contain the entire OS.

enterneo on July 21, 2011 [–]

but there is also an option to install Lion from that recovery HD partition.

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