What is Eschatology? Why does my partitioning software list it?
Literally speaking, it is “the teachings of the end of the world”. In this context it is a type of partition for older versions of A/UX. Apple must have meant it in good humor as a sign to administrators to prepare their systems for disaster. The eschatology partition is supposed to allow the system to automatically recover critical system files whenever the system goes down. It’s part of the A/UX “autorecovery” process. It was supposed to work by maintaining backup copies of these critical files for you on two separate partitions — Eschatology and Eschatology2. In five years of college with hundreds of other students with A/UX machines, I’ve never once heard of an incident where autorecovery kicked in and did its thing.
