What Are Partitions And Filesets - HP 300 Series Software Installation Instruction

What Are Partitions ,and Filesets?
The subsystems on HP-UX define a high-level subdivision of the HP-UX
operating system. Partitions, filesets, and files define progressively finer, more
detailed subdivisions.
A partition is a logical grouping of filesets; a fileset is a logical grouping of files.
Some filesets contain hundreds of files; some contain only a few files. A product
(for example, the Xll Window System) is a logical grouping of filesets and/or
partitions.
Installing HP-UX is a process of loading thousands of files (grouped as
partitions and filesets) from a tape onto your destination disk. When the files
are transferred from the tape to your disk, the files are deposited on the disk
in a hierarchical structure that is unrelated to the original partition/fileset
groupings on the tape.
See Appendix A for a description of the partitions and filesets contained on the
install tape.
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