Question

What is a partition and disk formating?

Answer 1

Partition:

-> Partition of a disk is the logical division of the hard disk drive.

->Partitions helps the users to divide the physical drive into parts.

->The partition information of the hardisk is stored in a partition table.

-> There are 3 types of partitions. They are

1) Primary Partition

2)Extended Partition.

3) Logical Partition.

Primary Partition:

-> Primary partition is the partition in which the operating system can be installed.

->Primary partition contains one file system.

-> MBR partition allows upto 4 primary partitions.

-> Among the 4 primary partitions only one can be an active partition.

-> No log

-> Active partition:

Active partition is the partition which can be used as bootable partition and its the partition which contains an operating system.

Extended Partition:

-> Extended partition is the partion which can be divided into further logical partitions.

-> There can be only one extended partition in the hard disk

->If there are 4 primimary partitions, no extended partition is used.

->There must be 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition.

-> The extended partition can be divided into 24 logical partitions.

Logical Partitions:

-> The extended partition can be sub divided into further partitions with in the extended partition known as extended partition.

-> Logical partitions are present within the Extended partition.

Disk Formatting:

-> Disk formatting is the process of configuring data storage device for the initial use.

->Using disk formatting we can assign file system to the hard disk drive.

->If a dist is formatted, any existing informartion present in the disk is erased.

-> If empty space present in the storage, In order to use the empty space it must be formatted to a partition.

-> In order to create a disk partition, disk must be formatted using disk formatting.

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