Editing Disk partitioning (section)

== Partition table ==
A '''partition table''' is a table maintained on a disk by the operating system that outlines and describes the partitions on that disk.<ref name="Frisch_2002">{{cite book |author-last=Frisch |author-first=AEleen |title=Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration |date=2002 |publisher=[[O'Reilly Media, Inc.]] |url=https://archive.org/details/essentialsystema00fris_0|url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/essentialsystema00fris_0/page/86 86] |isbn=9780596004491 }}</ref> The terms ''partition table'' and ''partition map'' are similar terms and can be used interchangeably. The term is most commonly associated with the [[MBR partition table]] of a [[Master Boot Record]] (MBR) in [[Personal computer|PCs]], but it may be used generically to refer to other formats that divide a disk drive into partitions, such as: [[GUID Partition Table]] (GPT), [[Apple partition map]] (APM),<ref name="Apple_pdisk">The ''pdisk'' utility for Apple Partition Maps is described as an ''Apple partition table editor'' in its pdisk(8) [[man page]]: {{man|8|pdisk|Darwin}}.</ref> or [[BSD disklabel]].<ref name="Solaris">{{cite web |title=About Disk Labels |url=http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-7228/6j6q7uet6?a=view |work=System Administration Guide, Volume 1 |access-date=2010-04-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070228200258/http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-7228/6j6q7uet6?a=view |archive-date=2007-02-28}} (NB. The Solaris documentation on disklabels uses the term "partition table".)</ref>