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Make a partition of an exact size for cloning
Authored by: Sven G on Thu, Dec 20 2007 at 12:59AM PST

Of course this was also said in the hint above, but in other ways. The "automatic" 128 MB free space is very useful, besides RAID, also to easily add an Apple_Bootstrap-type partition when you repartition your system to install Linux besides Mac OS X on PowerPC systems.