Parallels

[steve harley]

they whom i call LuKreme wrote:
> 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.

neither of us have statistics ...

[me:]
>> 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.

s/my comment/what he actually wrote/

"At any moment I can, without discretion, wipe out my boot drive 
and reinstall from the DVD without losing any of my data"

<http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=9760>

i mentioned it to show that smart people with good Mac OS X 
knowledge & skills, in case i don't seem to fit that category, 
can have legitimate reasons to partition their drives