ITN 276 Final exam study 2 questions with correct answers

creating and deleting files in various file systems, AnswerFAT: when a file is deleted it isn't actually removed from the drive. The FAT is just updated to reflect that those clusters are no longer in use. if new info is saved it can now overwrite info in these clusters. ---------NTFS: similar to FAT but clusters are first marked as deleted, thus "moved" to the Recycle bin. filename is marked with a special character in MFT to indicate the file is deleted to the computer. fragmented file AnswerThese files become "fragmented" meaning they consist of fragments of data. swamp file Answerused to augment the RAM. File Allocation Table, AnswerUsed to store cluster/file information in FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32. Information included in the File allocation Table include: The cluster number of the next cluster for this file is recorded, if the cluster is the end of a chain, then it has a special end of cluster chain (EOC) entry, Bad clusters have a special entry, Reserved clusters have a special entry, open or available clusters are also marked. exFAT, AnswerIt is a proprietary file system designed for flash media and is often dubbed FAT64. exFAT boasts a file size limit of 16 EiB (1 exbibyte = 260 bytes = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes). There are four major areas or regions of exFAT: The main boot region The backup boot region The FAT region (normally only FAT1 is found unless TFAT is configured and then FAT2 will be found) The data region