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- PARTITION
-
- A partition is a part, piece or division of a larger whole. A piece of pie
- is one partition of the whole pie.
-
- A hard disk can be divided up into as many as 4 separate partitions by the
- FDISK or PART command. Each partition is treated by DOS as if it were a
- separate disk with a separate name. One partition on a hard disk is always
- called the "active" partition when booting the computer. It is called the
- default partition, and the choice of which partition is "active" can be
- changed by the FDISK or PART command.
-
- The smallest partition that can be defined is 32,000 characters. On versions
- of DOS prior to 4.0, the largest partition that can be defined by the PART or
- FDISK command is 32 million characters. Separately purchased programs can
- support larger partitions. On DOS 4.0 and later, the largest partition that
- can be defined is about 2 billion characters.