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Partitioning is the process of splitting a disk up into several smaller sections, or partitions. Each partition is treated as an independent filesystem.
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In geographically licensed services, this is the acquisition of a portion of a licensee's geographic service area by another entity. For example, a PCS licensee with a license for an MTA could partition a BTA within the MTA to another entity (see Assignment and Disaggregation).
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The purpose of partitioning is to create a logical file structure for the operating system to access and to divide a portion of the disk drive to be used by more than one disk operating system. Large disk drives can be divided into areas for the file allocation table (FAT) to access when in use.
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Restructuring a program or algorithm in semi-independent computational segments to take advantage of multiple CPUs simultaneously. The goal is to achieve roughly equivalent work in each segment with minimal need for intersegment communication. It is also worthwhile to have fewer segments than CPUs on a dedicated system. PE:
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To divide memory or mass storage into isolated sections.
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