So that's Mountain Lion

After my friends kept saying how awesome OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion was, I finally couldn't resist the temptation, and prepared to give it a try.  So I grab the files, extracted the dmg, and then follow the instruction by use Disk Utility to restore the dmg to an existing Lion partition.

Problem comes, I kept getting verification error.  It turns out that that's ok.  All I need to do is first enable to partition, and then repair the partition.  After that, I got the partition up and running.

Here's the next problem.  I found that for some quick reason, the Capacity of the drive is 424Gb, but the actually usable size is just 8Gb!  Later, I solved the problem by using Apple Disk Utility.  First I slightly shrinked the partition, that forced the partition to recalculate, and finally reclaimed all the capacity of the partition.  Then I enlarged the partition to the original size.  And now I got the full partition capacity.  Along the process, though, I need to do disk repair on the partition a few times.  But eventually it all worked out.

Having enough disk space is so important.  Because when I am out of disk space, crazy thing happens. For instance, I got error message saying that I had no privilege when I tried to change to start up disk, all because there's no space left on my hard disk.

I still haven't found Mountain Lion particularly awesome.  Maybe I just need some more time to get used to it.  But at least I enough the Chinese Handwriting feature.