Q. The three major methods of allocating disk space that are in wide use are :

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Q. In contiguous allocation :

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Q. In linked allocation :

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Q. In indexed allocation :

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Q. On systems where there are multiple operating system, the decision to load a particular one is done by :

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Q. The VFS (virtual file system) activates file system specific operations to handle local requests according to their _______

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Q. The real disadvantage of a linear list of directory entries is the :

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Q. Contiguous allocation of a file is defined by :

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Q. One difficulty of contiguous allocation is :

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Q. _______ and ________ are the most common strategies used to select a free hole from the set of available holes.

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Q. The first fit and best fit algorithms suffer from :

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Q. To solve the problem of external fragmentation, ________ needs to be done periodically.

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Q. If too little space is allocated to a file

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Q. A device driver can be thought of as a translator. Its input consists of _____ commands and output consists of _______ instructions.

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Q. The file organization module knows about :

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Q. Metadata includes :

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Q. For each file their exists a ___________ that contains information about the file, including ownership, permissions and location of the file contents.

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Q. For processes to request access to file contents, they need to :

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Q. During compaction time, other normal system operations _______ be permitted.

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Q. When in contiguous allocation the space cannot be extended easily :

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