What is the difference between shrinking a volume and partitioning a Windows volume?

Question

Windows

I heard somewhere that they say there is a COMPRESSION of the volume, and then the main partition is allocated from the unallocated space, and there is a DIVISION. There was a question... - What does it mean? Where I did not try to find information - everywhere they write with disk partitioning through volume compression. Is it even possible to partition a disk into partitions if you don't apply volume compression? It is a question of carrying out such operation from under Windows.

Answer 1

Strange things and strange terms. In order to redistribute space between partitions on the disk without losing data, you need to:
- reduce the size of the file system by moving all files to the beginning of the disk
- reduce the size of the partition
- create a new
partition translated "shrink" as "compression". Compression in the context of data is the application of a stream archiver to a partition that compresses data on the fly to compensate for the lack of space at the cost of access time. When partitioning a disk, the partition is not compressed , but reduced.

Answer 2

Some kind of porridge.
A physical disk may or may not be partitioned. Each partition may or may not create a volume.
You can resize volumes and partitions, move them, delete them.

Is it even possible to partition a disk into partitions if you don't apply volume compression?

Is it even possible to build a house if tomorrow is Tuesday?