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Each file has its own index block(s) of pointers to its data blocks

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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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