The two main partitioning schemes used on Linux and Windows/DOS are
MBR and, more recently,
GPT. This article doesn't cover the Mac's original
Apple Partition Scheme and additional partition schemes used by various other operating systems.
To understand partitions, it is important to remember that storage devices divide up their space into
sectors which are traditionally
512 bytes in length. However, since 2010, most large hard disks (called
Advanced Format (AF)) now have physical...
