Disk partitions

special type of boot sector at the very beginning of partitioned computer mass storage devices

thumb|300px|rEFInd Boot Manager, with entries for [[openSUSE Tumbleweed (one is GRUB and another is kernel EFI stub) and Windows 11, an example of dual booting]] thumb|300px|GNU GRUB|GRUB, with entries for [[Ubuntu and Windows Vista, another example of dual booting]] Multi-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a single computer, and being able to choose which one to boot. The term dual-booting refers to the common configuration of specifically two operating systems. Multi-booting may require a custom boot loader.

standard for the layout of the partition table on a physical storage device used in a desktop or server PC

creation of separate accessible storage areas on a raw computer storage device

subsidiary partition table in the MBR partitioning scheme

table inside a master boot record

partition on a data storage device that is used by computers adhering to the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

Aspect of a computer disk file system

computing terms for disk partitions

computer disk partitioning scheme