What is a maintenance partition?
Something is wrong with your regular boot partition. How do you fix it if you can’t boot it? You boot something else. Open files on your boot partition are preventing you from successfully backing up the whole partition. How do you back up the whole partition with open files on it? One way is to boot something else. You are trying to get a new app or hardware working right, and just started a shutdown to troubleshoot, then you remember something else you should have done first. If you boot maintenence, you can successfully and/or more quickly go back and do what you forgot, if your maintenance boot is capable of quickness. In Windows®, your emergency boot diskette is your path to a maintenance boot. In Linux, the diskette you might have created when you installed is one path to a maintenance boot. In OS/2, you use the program object “create utility diskettes” after installing, then use these diskettes to maintenance boot, at least if you follow the instructions in the manuals. Floppy b
