What is a partition?

A partition is part of a disk, which is treated by the Amiga as a completely separate device. These have their own individual device and partition names. For example, you could separate your hard drive into four partitions, one for Workbench, the second for games, the third for serious software, and the fourth for images and sound samples. It also means that if one partition becomes corrupted you do not lose all of the data on the hard drive and it takes less time to "fix." At the moment the Amiga has a partition limit of 2GB, so if you owned a 4GB hard drive you would have to partition it into two parts.

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