Unless I'm mistaken, Harv, you've got a nomenclature issue going there: a partition is a volume.
Not sure if splitting hairs here or if I'm using it wrong, but I've always assumed a volume is a
data partition, like one formatted HFS/NTFS/FAT32. Other types could be "Free", "drivers", etc. OS 9 had typically around 9 different partitions on any given drive, only one was the Macintosh HD. The others were the drivers needed for the older machines to boot the drive. Macintosh HD may be on partition disk0s8 for example. Also, technically, the
entire device is a partition too. It's the first partition on the drive, which describes itself.
