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Physical Units of Storage

The database server uses the physical units of storage to allocate disk space. Unlike the logical units of storage whose size fluctuates, each of the physical units has a fixed or assigned size that is determined by the disk architecture.

The following sections describe the physical units of storage in more detail.

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