What are partitions in Android | Standard Android partitions

People who don't know about partitions can take a example of your windows computer.

One thing we want in our laptop or desktop is to have a huge space or storage same we want in our phones as well

We want our phones to have a 128GB of storage so we can store more data as of music, photo's videos and apps 

So coming back to partitions suppose your laptop/desktop have a huge harddrive about 1TB of storage capacity. 

You found that there is only one drive which is of 1TB that is your drive C

Now what you do? Either you can use is as it is or you create different 4 drives of 250GB each. 

Here we have partitioned our 1TB of storage in to 4 different drives of 250GB each

Hope this is makes you clear about how partitions work and use.... 

Now same apply to our Android devices as well 

When we purchase any smartphone of 32GB, 64GB our here we never gets a full storage of 32 or 64GB.

Because some of storage is already reserved by our system or OS. 

Which is why we never gets a full storage. 

In 32GB we usually see 6 or 7GB is already reserved by our system. Which we cannot use to store our personal data. 

Now this reserved storage have number of partitions. 

In Android we have major 6-7 partitions which is reserved by our Android OS. 

we know about such as boot, recovery, system apps ,temporary cache etc. 

But there are more than that these... We just deal with major partitions. 

However this system reserved storage has more than 50 partitions. 

In oneplus we have 70+ partitions and same  for our laptop or desktop. 

Every partitions in Android perform a different functions

Standard Android internal partitions

• /boot
• /system
• /recovery
• /data
• /cache
• /misc