Single accessible storage area of a computer drive, usually containing a single filesystem volume.
1To use a disk partition with Vinum, it must be prepared as follows:
2As we've seen, the basic Unix file storage unit is the disk partition.
3The following command can be used to boot Linux from the second hard disk partition:
4To save the disk partition information, run these commands:
5Plan the filesystem and disk partition layout with security in mind (see below).
6This process is repeated for the other disk partition.
7For administrators, however, there are a few times when the disk partition must be accessed directly.
8This will be the "Next" menu item once you have created one disk partition.
9Most disk partition-related commands require a specific type of special file and won't accept the other kind.
11You will be offered the choice to scan the disk partition for bad blocks, as you were when you initialized the swap partition.
12After a long moment staring at nothing, he pulled up his disk partition, reviewed what still needed doing, and started cleaning the place up.
13Toss out that lame Microsoft OS, or confine it to one disk partition and put Linux or FreeBSD or NetBSD on the other one.
14In some versions of Unix, default disk partitions are defined in advance by the operating system.
15Mounting disk partitions within the Unix filesystem
16A Unix filesystem must be created on each of the disk partitions to be used for user files.
Translations for disk partition