Mar 13, 2014 Splitting the Fusion Drive - A geek's tale. Drive when they buy a 2012 iMac or Mac mini. A Fusion drive is actually two physical drives within the machine. A Boot Camp partition on the SSD.
Apple has finally fixed a big issue on macOS Mojave Boot Camp. The issue affected iMac and Mac Mini machines using a Fusion Drive. With the patch in place, iMac and Mac mini users can use Boot Camp on their system.
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Boot Camp is Apple’s native tool that allows users to install Windows on the same machine as the macOS. The tool lets you run Windows as and when required and switch back to macOS. This feature is a savior for all the users who want to use dual operating systems.
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Third-party apps like Parallel offer similar functionality, but unlike Boot Camp, they make use of a virtual machine. The experience of using Windows on Boot Camp is identical to using it on a separate machine. As mentioned earlier, the Boot Camp installation was being blocked on some iMac and Mac mini computers with Fusion Drive and Apple has fixed the issue now.
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Apple has issued a small Boot Camp update for macOS Mojave 10.14.5 users. According to the release notes, “This update addresses an issue which prevents the creation of a new Boot Camp partition on iMac and Mac mini with Fusion Drive.” The update is lite at 1.9MB and shouldn’t really take much time to install. Try using Boot Camp after installing the update, you should be good to go. The latest version of the Boot Camp release can be downloaded from here.
When Apple announced the Fusion Drive, I assumed it was just a hybrid SSD drive. However, after consulting the internet tubes, I discovered a consensus that no one really knew what the heck it was. We had to wait.
Then the reviewers got hold of it, and lo and behold, it turns out to be separate SSD and standard drives combined with Core Storage. Neat.
The question remained about how Boot Camp is supported on the Fusion drive. Apple’s support document said that you can create two partitions AND THAT IS ALL YOU GET, SO GOOD DAY SIR.
At the Apple store I had to special order a Mac Mini with the Fusion Drive. Once it arrived, I looked at the Fusion Drive in Disk Utility and it displayed as a single drive and partition:
The terminal shot of the core storage view above shows the different drives. The technology behind core storage has been well-covered in the blogosphere, but a question remained: how does Disk Utility handle repartitioning the drive and how does it appear in Windows?
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So I created a new partition in Disk Utility, and sure enough Disk Utility only allowed creation of one additional partition, which could be either HFS+ or FAT32/exFAT. No third partition can be created.
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I then used Winclone to restore a Windows image to the FAT32 partition I created in Disk Utility, booted it up and it worked great! From the Disk Management utility in Windows 7, the disk looks like this:
As expected, Windows sees it as two separate drives. Back in OS X, I checked out the GUID partition table:
Some interesting things here. As you would expect, there is a Core Storage partition on both the SSD drive and the standard drive. Both have a GUID partition scheme and an EFI partition, as expected. However, the SSD has its own Apple_Boot partition. It could be that the Apple_Boot is the OS X System installed on the SSD, but it looked more like the partition to boot into a File Vault 2 volume. A closer look at the mounted partition showed only the basic system files needed by core storage. Similar, if not identical, to File Vault 2.
The Windows partition and a recovery partition exist entirely on the standard drive. As expected, since OS X requires Boot Camp to be last among the first 4 partitions on the drive, the Windows volume is partition 4.
Note that this drive is 1 TB in size. As of this writing, Boot Camp only supports drives up to 2.2 TB in size. Next I’ll be posting an article about how to get Windows installed on a 3 TB or larger drive. This will apply to both Fusion and standard hard drives.