Lion and Mavericks (strange things going on)

Hello everybody,
I have a 2010 (white) macbook,
I just installed Mavericks and updated it to 10.9.3. The macbook runs both 10.7 Lion (my main and most important partition) and 10.9, it's a dual boot.
My partition with Lion is called ''Macintosh HD'' and the one with Mavericks is called ''OS X Mavericks''. (Mavericks is startup partition)
Now i'm using both together some strange things are happening. First off when i opened Finder in Mavericks it only showed ''Macintosh HD'' like that was the partition Mavericks was installed on, now i've added the right partition in the sidebar of the finder (OS X Mavericks). This was already weird.
When i went back into Lion everything was fine but it stated indexing ( i guess the mavericks partition ) this annoyed me because i want them to be seperate.
So I went to settings > Spotlight > Privacy and added ''OS X Mavericks'' so Lion stopped indexing that part of my harddrive.
When I went into Mavericks again, the spotlight on Mavericks was indexing and then randomly stopped. I went in to Setting > Spotlight and Privacy again.
Only now in Mavericks. Guess what: in privacy ''OS X Mavericks'' partition was added.
Is Mavericks reading from the wrong partition??
Is spotlight running between two OS X versions?
How can i make sure Mavericks is reading info from the right partition?
It would be very nice if someone could tell me more about this..
Thanks in advance !!

I remember when Lion first came out, I installed a second Lion partiton and had issues similar to this. The MAS failed to work at all in the new Lion partition until I removed the original.
I suspect there is something with Lion that only likes one OS X per drive.
You might need to install Mavericks on an external drive rather than the second partition.

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