Editing Disk partitioning (section)

==History==
IBM in its 1983 release of [[Fdisk#IBM PC DOS|PC DOS version 2.0]] was an early if not first use of the term ''partition'' to describe dividing a block storage device such as an [[Hard disk drive|HDD]] into physical segments.  The term's usage is now ubiquitous.{{cn|date=August 2023}} Other terms used include ''logical disk'',<ref name="ref1" /> ''minidisk'',<ref name="ref2" /> ''portions'',<ref name="ref3" /> ''pseudo-disk'',<ref name="ref3" /> ''section'',<ref name="ref3" />  ''slice''<ref name="ref4" /> and ''virtual drive''.<ref name="ref5" />

One of the earliest such segmentation of a disk drive was IBM's 1966<ref name="IBMJRD" /> usage in its [[CP-67]] operating system of ''minidisk'' as a separate segment of a hard disk drive.<ref name="ref2" />