Parallels

[steve harley]

they whom i call Chad Leigh wrote:
> Except there ARE differences.

i merely said the _hassles_ are "little different", not that the 
reasons to use one or the other were the same; i think anyone who 
can bear the hassles of multiple drives can probably also bear 
the hassles of partitions, though there are different advantages 
for either

i think its notable that we get patronizing admonitions at the 
mere mention of partitions, but nothing of the kind when people 
talk about multiple hard drives ...

as for whether partitioning is more "voluntary" than adding a 
drive, i'd say the practicalities of laptops might be seen as 
"forcing" partitioning for some purposes; also, the sheer size of 
huge drives can be a problem; for example it can be handy to make 
a bootable clone of a boot volume, but this is not as easy when 
the boot volume is 500 GB