Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, machine-readable mediums, and NAND devices which create logical partitions when requested to create a physical partition. The controller on the NAND mimics the creation of the physical partition to the host device that requested the physical partition. Thus, the host device sees the logical partition as a physical partition. Despite this, the NAND does not incur the memory storage expense of creating a separate partition, and additionally the NAND can borrow cells for overprovisioning from another partition. In these examples, a host device operating system believes that a physical partition has been created, but the NAND manages the memory as a contiguous pool of resources. Thus, a logical partition is created at the NAND memory controller level—as opposed to at the operating system level.