partitions Flashcards
the process of making logical space on a hard disk drive is called
partitioning
a 16-bit entries that makes up the partition table is called the
master boot record (MBR)
______ disk can use both primary and extended partitions.
basic disk
basic disk can have how many primary disk
4 primary or
3 primary and 1 extended
an extended partition can have ___ logical partitions
24
the ________ contains information about the logical drives within the extended partition
extended boot record (EBR)
______ disk type supports up to 128 volumes.
dynamic
basis disk uses _______ disk space
contiguous
dynamic disk uses ________ disk space
dis-contiguous
_____ volumes contain disk space from a single hard disk
simple
________ volumes contain disk space from multiple hard disks, grouped together into a single logical volume
spanned
the new standard that are replacing MBR partitions is
GPT partitions
GPT is associated with
UEIF
a single storage area within a file system is called a
volume
a container in a volume that holds files is called a
directory
the process of preparing a partition to use a specific file system
formatting
an empty folder on the existing volume that points to another partition.
mount point
when one adds unallocated disk space to the volume, this process is called
extending volume
located on the MBR, it describes the partition file system and points to the method of booting the OS
boot sector
