Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who partitions or partitions off; specifically, one who partitions lands.

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  • noun One who applies, executes or imposes a partition, division or separation

Etymologies

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to partition + -er

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Examples

  • If you already created a partition with the (otherwise very nice) Ubuntu partitioner, you can change it from Fedora using: mkfs. ext3 - I 128/dev/sda1

    Making Ubuntu work for me – Heuristic 2009

  • Before developing custom partitioner this will be part two of the series work stealing part must be in place:

    Site Home Dzmitry Huba 2011

  • If he lends it to a proprietor, he seems to belong to the class of proprietors, and he becomes co-partitioner in the property; the income of the land is destined to the payment of the interest of his trust; the value of the funds is equal to the security of his capital.

    Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth 1770

  • On my first attempt I got all the way to the partitioner and did a 70% - 30% between my Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

    Ubuntu Forums stenciljunkie 2010

  • On my first attempt I got all the way to the partitioner and did a 70% - 30% between my Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

    Ubuntu Forums stenciljunkie 2010

  • In addition to the command-line tools for Btrfs the Yast2 GUI partitioner in openSUSE 11.3 can build and mount a Btrfs without much fuss.

    Resources | ZDNet 2010

  • Another way is to use manual partitioning, and point the partitioner at your existing partition.

    Ubuntu Forums Haseebkhilji 2010

  • On my first attempt I got all the way to the partitioner and did a 70% - 30% between my Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

    Ubuntu Forums stenciljunkie 2010

  • On my first attempt I got all the way to the partitioner and did a 70% - 30% between my Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

    Ubuntu Forums stenciljunkie 2010

  • On my first attempt I got all the way to the partitioner and did a 70% - 30% between my Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

    Ubuntu Forums stenciljunkie 2010

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