Origin of "partition" in storage devices

[Fred Cisin]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
> FAT's *file* size limitation is indeed due to a 32 bit field. The ISO 9660
> standard offers an "interesting" solution to that, namely having multiple
> directory entries for the same filename. So if you want to store files
> larger than 4GiB on a CD-ROM, the filesystem won't hold you back.

Multiple DIRectory entries ("extents") for the same file was also how CP/M 
handled "large" files.

And, how Windoze stores "long filenames", although that's just using up 
DIRectory space for the filenames, with a pointer to the "real" entry.