abstract:The term partition table is most commonly associated with the MBR partition table of a Master Boot Record (MBR) in IBM PC compatibles, but it may be used generically to refer to other "formats" that divide a disk drive into partitions, such as: GUID Partition Table (GPT), Apple partition map (APM),The pdisk utility for Apple Partition Maps is described as an Apple partition table editor in its man page or BSD disklabel].The Solaris documentation on disklabels uses the term "partition table".