Manual Partitioning

Manual partitioning covers special case scenarios that cannot be accomplished using the point-in-time or automatic partitioning mechanisms. Manual partitioning could involve using the createPartition method in the Class class to create new empty partitions and the moveToPartition method of the Object class to move objects to a specified partition.

This style of partitioning, where objects are relocated individually, is not as efficient as the strategies that allow objects to be located in the correct partition when created. However, it may be necessary to relocate objects between partitions for maintenance or corrective actions, or when the status of an object changes to an inactive state, for example.