While partitions were once static storage regions, thankfully, we now have a proliferation of PC repartitioning tools (PowerQuest's Partition Magic product is one of the most popular).
虽然分区曾一度是静态存储器的天下，但值得庆幸的是，我们现在有许多 PC 重新分区工具（PowerQuest 的 Partition Magic 产品就是最流行的一种）。
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By static, I mean that the resources allocated to each partition do not change over time.
所谓静态的意思是，分配到每个分区上的资源不会随着时间而改变。
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In typical warehouse environments, recent data changes frequently while historical data is more or less static and this makes partition level reorg invaluable for reorganizing only the active data.