Partition table
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The term partition table is most commonly associated with partition table (master boot record)
but it may be used generically to refer to other "formats" that divide a disk drive into partitions, such as: GUID Partition Table
, Apple partition map
, or BSD disklabel
.
An alternative term to generically refer to partition table is partition map.
Master boot record
A master boot record is a type of boot sector popularized by the IBM Personal Computer. It consists of a sequence of 512 bytes located at the first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk...
but it may be used generically to refer to other "formats" that divide a disk drive into partitions, such as: GUID Partition Table
GUID Partition Table
In computer hardware, GUID Partition Table is a standard for the layout of the partition table on a physical hard disk. Although it forms a part of the Extensible Firmware Interface standard , it is also used on some BIOS systems because of the limitations of MBR partition tables, which restrict...
, Apple partition map
Apple Partition Map
Apple Partition Map is a partition scheme used to define the low-level organization of data on disks formatted for use with 68K and PowerPC Macintosh computers that was introduced with the Macintosh SE ....
, or BSD disklabel
BSD disklabel
In BSD-derived computer operating systems and in related operating systems such as SunOS, a disklabel is a record stored on a data storage device such as a hard disk that contains information about the location of the partitions on the disk. Disklabels were introduced in the 4.3BSD-Tahoe release...
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An alternative term to generically refer to partition table is partition map.