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Format a NTFS hard drive in 10.3
Though there may be different terminology with *nix-based systems, the terms "volume" and "partition" have, on the Mac, from what I've seen since 1984, been two interchangeable terms for the same thing--all formatters for the Mac have used these terms to mean the same thing. I don't know the answer to the question as to whether volumes/partitions can also be called "filesystems", or if that's a term that applies to some other characteristic of the whole disk mechanism itself.
Format a NTFS hard drive in 10.3
File systems and partitions are not the same thing. A partition is a block of space on a disk. A file system is a way of organising the data in a partition.
Format a NTFS hard drive in 10.3
Right ... the area within a particular partition (slice) may contain a filesystem, or may not. Also, there may be a logical volume in that partition, or not. In Mac OS, Disk Utility is employed to create HFS or HFS+ volumes, so there you have the "filesystem" (the "FS" in HFS). |
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