What is a partition?
A partition is part of a disk, which is treated by the Amiga as
a completely separate device. These have their own individual
device and partition names. For example, you could separate your
hard drive into four partitions, one for Workbench, the second for
games, the third for serious software, and the fourth for images
and sound samples. It also means that if one partition becomes
corrupted you do not lose all of the data on the hard drive and it
takes less time to "fix." At the moment the Amiga has a partition
limit of 2GB, so if you owned a 4GB hard drive you would have to
partition it into two parts.
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