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Four fields appear at the top of the Partition List window.
• Capacity
The total capacity of the storage mechanism as specified by its
manufacturer.
• Unallocated
The amount of unallocated, free space on the storage device.
• # of Partitions
The total number of partitions on the storage device. Volumes, drivers,
and partition maps occupy their own partitions.
• Total Blocks
The media of a storage device is logically divided into a finite number
of addressable blocks at the time it is low-level formatted.The total
number of addressable blocks in the listed partitions appears here.
The Partition List window’s column headings
• Title
Partitions used as storage volumes can have a user-specified title (this
is also the name that appears on the Desktop). Other partitions show
the title of the driver or driver component.
• Name
The name signifies the nature of the partition. All simple HFS parti-
tions have the name Mac OS .
• Type
There are several types of partitions used by the Macintosh. A simple
volume that mounts to the Desktop is of the Apple_HFS type. Parti-
tion maps are of the Apple_Partition_Map type. Drivers are of the
Apple_Driver43 type.
• Start Block
Partitions can be located by their first block or Start Block .
• Size
The size of the partition in kilobytes is displayed in this column.
Three command buttons appear at the bottom of the Partition List win-
dow:
• Configure Driver
The “rules” that govern the operation of the FWB device driver can be
changed to meet your computing needs. For more information on this
feature, see Configuring a device’s driver in the online manual.
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