Parallels

[Chad Leigh]

On Mar 1, 2007, at 3:27 PM, steve harley wrote:

> 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

And my differences that I mentioned, at least one of them at least,  
said the hassles were NOT the same.  You tend to run out of space  
with partitions more so than multiple drives since the drives are  
usually much bigger.

Chd

>
> 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
>
>
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