Partition

From Computing Knowledgebase

A Partition, put simply, is a segment of a Hard Drive that is self-contained, and seperate from other portions of the drive.

Let's take an 80GB Hard Drive as an example. Usually, a Drive like this will actually have a Formatted Capacity of around 74GB

So, a Partition Table might look like this:

Partition Number	File System	Partition Size
Partition 1	FAT32	8GB
Partition 2	NTFS	20GB
Partition 3	Ext3	20GB
Partition 4	Ext2	20GB
Partition 5	FAT32	20GB