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disk blocks
GATE CSE & IT · File Systems · 2025-2026
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Digital logic, datapath, memory hierarchy, instruction sets
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To keep track of free blocks in a file system, one of the two approaches is generally used - using bitmaps (bit vectors) or using linked lists. Consider that the linked list approa...
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A disk of size 512 M bytes is divided into blocks of 64 K bytes. A file is stored in the disk using linked allocation. In linked allocation, each data block reserves 4 bytes to sto...
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