Choose from the titles available for this partition of the disk. Following are guidelines for matching partition numbers and names, with descriptions of each partition's typical use.
- unassigned - has no named function.
- boot - stores information used for booting the computer.
- root - stores operating system files and directories (usually partition 0).
- swap - contains disk space reserved for swapping program components in and out of memory, when the programs are too large to fit entirely in memory (partition 1 is often used).
- usr - contains system commands (executables) to be run by users (usually partition 6).
- backup - refers to the whole disk (usually partition 2).
- stand - used for standalone programs.
- var - stores system files and directories likely to change in size over the life of the local system, including system logs, editor backup files, and so forth.
- home - contains files created by the user (usually partition 7).
- altsctr - (alternate sector) contains data from sectors written incorrectly, marked as bad, and mapped to the altsctr partition.
- cache - stores data received from a server. Once remote files are referenced, they can subsequently be retrieved from the local cache.