It means to make a single Hard Drive into many. When you buy any hard drive it is used normally as one partition. After you format it you can change the partitioning into different sizes you want.
You can make a 500 gig hd into five 100gig partitions (it would show up as 5 different hd icons) or two 250 gig partitions, (it would show up as 2 hard drives) etc.
The down fall of having partitions is if the hard drive died ALL the partitions die with it. The partitions are still part of ONE hard drive.
"fdisk" command is used for partitioning in DOS.
Office partitioning can be purchased at many locations and different types of retailers. Many online retailers, such as Amazon and eBay sell office partitioning.
There are different various places where one can purchase disk partitioning software. There are disk partitioning software available on Amazon such as Partition Commander 10. Some other places that one can buy disk partitioning software are Ease US and Partition Wizard.
Binary Space Partitioning
All hard drives require partitioning. Most have one big partition, and come that way from the store.
Place value partitioning
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Server virtualization is the partitioning of a single of a single server each of which can support a different operating system.
Horizontal partitioning:Horizontal partitioning is partitioning the table into no.of smaller tables on the basis of rows.Eg:In an employee table, employees with salary less than $10,000 will be partitioned into different table.Vertical Partitioning:Vertical parttioning is dividing the table based on the different columns.Eg:In the same employee table, retrieving oly the name and contact number of all the employees into a different table.
Data warehouse is a large repository of data. The data may or may not be of any use. Partitioning in Data warehouse can be done by forming clusters and then forming groups.Partitioning in datawarehouse can be done by forming clusters. Partitioning can be done on the basis of relation between the data.