Clarification Please

[Mick]

I have one physical hard drive, say 200Gig.

Formatted and partitioned to C: 100 Gig & D: 100 gig (less the 8meg or so
the system reserves)

C is a partition
D is a partition

Is the physical hard drive called a volume?

Also

If the formatted drive only contains C: 200Gig
Is C: still called a partition or is it called a volume?

Mick

Haven't googled yet.

 

[Ron Badour]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_(computing)

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

 

[Bill in Co.]

Good reference article on it. In short it says a logical drive can be
considered the same thing as a volume, but one needs to read that article to
get more clarification on that. And one thing the article does note is
that partition and volume are not the same thing.

 

[Leonard Grey]

The term 'volume' refers to any unit of storage. A folder could be a
volume. So could a hard disk or disk partition or a network drive or a
USB drive...you get the picture.

 

[Bill in Co.]

A directory (folder) can be a "volume"? Are you so sure? That doesn't
sound right to me.

 

[Nate Grossman]

A directory (folder) can be a "volume"? Are you so sure? That doesn't
sound right to me.

That's because he's full of crap and isn't right.

 

[John John (MVP)]

It can be a "Volume Mount Point".

John

A directory (folder) can be a "volume"? Are you so sure? That doesn't
sound right to me.

 

[Bill in Co.]

But is that the same thing as a directory? (folder = directory)

 

[Leonard Grey]

An NTFS mount point is precisely what I had in mind. For example, that's
what I use to mount my USB "thumb" drive so it doesn't mess up my drive
letters. I also use a mount point to mount a backup disk image, when I
want to check the image file.

 

[Bill in Co.]

But a mount point isn't a directory (or volume) per se, is it?