What is a volume?

A volume is basically a disk that has a particular name that the user gives it. This could be anything from "Strawberries" to Thermo-nuclear beef burger. The volume name allows the computer to look for a specific disk in any drive, rather than just the drive it was first inserted into. It also allows you too identify what disk the computer requires. Most Amiga users are familiar with a requester popping up and saying "Please insert Volume Workbench in any drive." Well, just imagine that it didn't say the name just the device, DF0:. The Amiga will look in all of its drives for a disk with that name to see if it is present.

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