Cracker Now itâs time for the ethane cracker. A cracker plant looks similar to a gasoline refinery, with miles of pipes and large storage tanks. The final complex could cover several hundred acres.
In math, volume is the amount of space inside a three-dimensional object, or its capacity. A measurement of volume offers insight into how much liquid or how many physical objects a person can fit into an object. Knowing the volume of a truck is helpful when planning a move.
A partition is a just a space crafted out of a disk. For example- you could set aside a space of 100 GB for a partition from a hard disk of 1 TB. A volume is a partition that has been formatted into a filesystem. A partition is of little use unless formatted. And when we format a partition into NTFS, FAT32, ext4 etc, it becomes a volume and is usable.