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2. Microsoft Reserved Partition - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft reserves a chunk of disk space using this MSR partition type, to provide an alternative data storage space for such software components which previously may have used hidden sectors on MBR formatted disks. Small, special-purpose partitions can be allocated from a portion of the space reserved in the MSR partition. [1]

3. User space and kernel space - Wikipedia

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   The term user space (or userland) refers to all code that runs outside the operating system's kernel. [2] User space usually refers to the various programs and libraries that the operating system uses to interact with the kernel: software that performs input/output, manipulates file system objects, application software, etc.

4. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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   The boot partition (or boot volume) [5] is the disk partition that contains the operating system folder, known as the system root or %systemroot% in Windows NT. [6]: 174 Before Windows 7, the system and boot partitions were, by default, the same and were given the "C:" drive letter. [7]: 971 Since Windows 7, however, Windows Setup creates, by ...

5. System folder - Wikipedia

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   The System Folder is normally located directly below the root directory in the filesystem hierarchy, but does not need to be. The Mac OS identifies the "System Folder" by undocumented characteristics that are independent of its name (it has different names in non-English versions of the Mac OS), or its location in the directory hierarchy.

6. Apple Partition Map - Wikipedia

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   This partition type was discontinued with Mac OS X 10.3. Apple_MDFW: firmware: firmware: This partition is used by iPod to load the firmware/OS. Apple_MFS: Macintosh File System: This partition is used by Mac OS for the Macintosh File System (MFS), which was introduced with the Macintosh 128K in 1984. Apple_partition_map: partition map: Apple

7. Core Storage - Wikipedia

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   Core Storage is a logical volume management system on macOS that was introduced by Apple to Mac OS X Lion. Core Storage is a layer between the disk partition and the file system. [1] Core Storage is the basis for Apple's Fusion Drive technology, [2] which presents several partitions on multiple drives as a single logical volume.

8. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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   The partition type code for a primary partition can either correspond to a file system contained within (e.g., 0x07 means either an NTFS or an OS/2 HPFS file system) or indicate that the partition has a special use (e.g., code 0x82 usually indicates a Linux swap partition).

9. Boot Camp (software) - Wikipedia

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   The utility guides users through non-destructive disk partitioning (including resizing of an existing HFS+ or APFS partition, if necessary) of their hard disk drive or solid-state drive and installation of Windows device drivers for the Apple hardware. The utility also installs a Windows Control Panel applet for selecting the default boot ...