What's the difference between volume and a partition?
What's the difference between volume and a partition?
Volume is how loud something is, and partition is a verb.
I mean in terms of data storage devices
one is the giblets and the other is the whole gibbles.
Have you ever used a hypervisor?
A partition divides up the contents of a disk. A volume is a particular instance of a filesystem and is what is put into a partition so you can store files in it.
wrong
I used Virtualbox if that counts
Partitions are sectors of a disk, while volumes are considered one continuous space of data. Partitions are limited to one disk, and there is a volume for every partition. However, volumes can span multiple disks by stitching the two on boot time via LVM (Logical Volume Management).
Volume doesn't mean anything very specific, it's a very politically correct term.
how is he wrong?
this is wrong
A partition is a logical division of space on a disk.
A volume is where you put your files, a volume can exist on multiple partitions, even multiple disks. The term may be used interchangeably, by mouth breathers, but they are NOT the same thing.
I can't believe Any Forums of all places doesn't know this...
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What the hells a data storage device?
I think you came to the wrong board.
We only talk about apple products here
A partition is a part of two standard disk tables, MBR and GPT, and usually is very simple being an offset and a size on a disk.
A volume is the "thinning" effect a filesystem or other subsystem the operating system uses to consume the space on the disk, usually partitioned by MBR or GPT.
A volume can be a block layer transformation, like full disk encryption or block thinning, or a filesystem's namespace.
The ntfs/exfat/ext2 filesystem is the "volume" and disk0p2 is the partition.
Uhhh, let's try that in english, boss!
volume where put files
partition how carve disk
>What's the difference between volume and a partition?
There can be many partitions on a volume
Its an arbitrary divisor that runs one way: from volumes to partitions
>there can be many partitions on a volume
Except volumes sit on partitions, unless you're from the 80s with a custom MFM hard format.
Also, to further, volumes can these days can further be partitioned into subvolumes and cannot be described as a single method divisor.
Gentlemen we're just talking definitions.
Classical definition.
So everyone does what the hell they want, then it becomes:
Its an arbitrary divisor