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Partitioning schemes
PC partition types
History
Partition table
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Overview
- Secondary storage Computer data storage
- File system
- System administrators System administrator
- Partition editor Disk editor
- Bootloader
- EFI system partition
History
- CP-67
- Data General
- RDOS Data General RDOS
- Nova Data General Nova
- PC DOS version 2.0 Fdisk
- HDD Hard disk drive
Partitioning schemes
- DOS
- Microsoft Windows
- OS/2
- Drive letter Drive letter assignment
- Windows 2000
- Incompatible Logical Disk Manager
- 1 MB partition alignment
- Unix
- Unix-like
- Linux
- MacOS
- BSD
- Solaris Solaris (operating system)
- Swap partition
- /boot
- /tmp
- /usr
- /var
- /home
- Read-only File system permissions
- Setuid
- Root directory
- Home directory
- Swap file
- FreeBSD
- Master Boot Record
- Disklabel BSD disklabel
- GUID Partition Table
- Startup Booting
- Virtual operating systems Virtual machine
Partition recovery
- Specialized recovery utilities Undeletion
- FAT File Allocation Table
- NTFS
Compressed disks
- Stacker Stac Electronics
- SuperStor
- DoubleSpace
- DriveSpace
- Windows 11
- CompactGUI
Partition table
- MBR partition table
- PCs Personal computer
- Apple partition map
- NVM Express
- Microsoft Reserved Partition
- Microsoft Basic Data Partitions Microsoft basic data partition
- Windows Recovery Environment
PC partition types
- Master boot record
- PC-compatible
- 0x83 Partition type
- Extended partition Extended boot record
- Microsoft
- System partition
- BIOS
- HPFS High Performance File System
- FAT16
- FAT32
- Ext4
- Ext3
- Ext2
- ReiserFS
- GUID partition table
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Disk partitioning
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| an HDD into physical segments | instance of | Each partition had its own directory.IBM in its 1983 release of PC DOS version 2.0 also used the term partition to describe dividing a block storage device | 0.80 | text |
| Linux | instance of | DOS as well as many other operating systems.Unix-like systemsOn Unix-based and Unix-like operating systems | 0.80 | text |
| macOS | instance of | DOS as well as many other operating systems.Unix-like systemsOn Unix-based and Unix-like operating systems | 0.80 | text |
| BSD | instance of | DOS as well as many other operating systems.Unix-like systemsOn Unix-based and Unix-like operating systems | 0.80 | text |
| and Solaris | instance of | DOS as well as many other operating systems.Unix-like systemsOn Unix-based and Unix-like operating systems | 0.80 | text |
| it is possible to use multiple partitions on a disk device | instance of | DOS as well as many other operating systems.Unix-like systemsOn Unix-based and Unix-like operating systems | 0.80 | text |
| /boot | instance of | Each partition can be formatted with a file system or as a swap partition.Multiple partitions allow directories | 0.80 | text |
| /tmp | instance of | Each partition can be formatted with a file system or as a swap partition.Multiple partitions allow directories | 0.80 | text |
| /usr | instance of | Each partition can be formatted with a file system or as a swap partition.Multiple partitions allow directories | 0.80 | text |
| /var | instance of | Each partition can be formatted with a file system or as a swap partition.Multiple partitions allow directories | 0.80 | text |
| or /home to be allocated their own filesystems | instance of | Each partition can be formatted with a file system or as a swap partition.Multiple partitions allow directories | 0.80 | text |
| documents separate from system files allows the system to be updated with lessened risk of disturbing the data.A common minimal configuration for Linux systems is to use three partitions | instance of | or with the execution of setuid files disabled.A runaway program that uses up all available space on a non-system filesystem does not fill up critical filesystems.Keeping user data | 0.80 | text |
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