Parallels

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On 1-Mar-2007, at 17:26, steve harley wrote:
> they whom i call Chad Leigh wrote:
>> 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 want multiple volumes, for any reason, but you don't want to  
> carry around an external drive; i won't engage the "special needs"  
> argument -- i don't see evidence that many people partition drives  
> in the first place without having a "special need"

Nope.  Most people who partition drives do it because that's what  
they were taught to do in 19— and so that's what they still do.

I reently was working on someone's new iMac G5 and they had their  
250GB SATA drive partitioned into 6 partitions.  No additional OS, no  
Boot Camp, no bootable clean Systems, just 6 partitions because  
that's how they'd always done it.

> an alternate strategy is to keep the home folder on another  
> partition; this allows reinstalling the OS while preserving the  
> home folder; Mike Bombich does this, for instance

Reinstalling the OS doesn't wipe the home folder.  I've installed  
(and reinstalled) OS X countless times since 10.0 and not once has my  
home been deleted.

Erasing the Drive might but that's nothing to do with installing the OS.

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