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.
>
> 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;

For general use, when?  Why would a laptop force you to partition?

If you have specil needs, like a  need to install WIndows and Mac OS  
X, or multiple versions of OS X, etc then, yes, it can be  
advantageous.  But the general case, not.

> 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
>

Again, special case.  You can make a disk image bootable clone of a  
boot volume, can't you?  (for backup purposes) .  Otehrwise, why  
would you do this on the same disk?  If your disk goes south, who  
cares how many clones of the boot partition you have on the same disk

Chad

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