Parallels

[LuKreme]

On 1-Mar-2007, at 15:27, steve harley wrote:
> 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;

The only real use of a partition under OS X is BootCamp.

> 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.

It's much better and safer to make a bootable clone of your boot  
volume onto a separate disk, and cheapo USB2 external will save your  
butt much more often than a dedicated partition will.  Especially  
since you can keep it in a locked drawer off-site.

I spend $14 on a case and pulled a drive from a dead laptop.   
Installed 10.4.6 onto it without any extras and that's my emergency  
drive.


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