Active Partition

In computer operating systems, disk partitioning is the creation of logical divisions upon a hard disk that allows one to apply operating system-specific logical formatting. In layman's terms, partitioning a hard drive can make it behave like multiple, independent non-partitioned hard drives for most practical purposes; the main difference with separate hard disks is that partitions of the same hard disk share their hardware (and therefore hardware failures) and it is possible to resize existing partitions.
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