Subtle distinction: a partition has underlying media, and the media is
associated with a device.
> It may have a label or volume id.
> It has a partition number (the 7 of hda7) that can be assigned.
> It may have substructure on the partition level, like a
> DOS-type partition (BSD slice) with BSD subpartitions.
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