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Contiguous

we only store at what block number and its length

great for sequential and random

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Explanation:

  • a disk is divided into 31 blocks
  • count file starts from block 0 and its length is 2 so it occupies block 0 and block 1

Backlinks

File ManagementFile allocation algorithms (contiguous, chained, indexed) * File system resides on secondary storage (disks) * File system divides disks into several blocks of sectors (usually 512 bytes) * An allocation method refers to how disk blocks are allocated for files: * Contiguous (where the blocks that we use to store a file is ordered) * Linked (where one block is not entirely used to store data but pointers as well) * Indexed (where there is one block that stores the pointers to the data blo
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