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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2001
Applicants:
Koji Tashiro, Kanagawa, JP;
Teiji Yutaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Koji Tashiro, Kanagawa, JP;
Teiji Yutaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F012/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A size of a partition to be created on a storage device is limited to a size of m to n-th power, where m and n are natural numbers. In creation of the partition, a partition management execution unit is set to dispose the partition from a sector aligned with a size of the partition itself, thereby improving the utilization efficiency of the storage device can be improved.