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How does the OS know which blocks are still free on a disk?
By linking the free blocks in a so-called free list
By having a free bitmap
None of these two
This depends on the file system
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Who decides where a file is physically stored on a hard disk?
The OS
The device driver
The hardware (some software inside the hardware)
Some combination of these
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Each file and each directory have ...
... at least 1 inode
... at most 1 inode
... exactly 1 inode
It's different for files and directories!
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Is the inode of a large file bigger than that of a small file?
Yes
No
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Is the file name included in the file's inode?
Yes
No
Only if the name's length does not exceed some threshold.
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In practice, will repeatedly accessing file /dir/dir/dir/dir/foo.txt cost more disk accesses than /foo.txt?
Yes
Yes, but only if /foo.txt is a real file; if is is a soft link, it depends on the path of the linked file
No
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The size of a block of a FAT file system is the same ...
... in a single partition
... on the same disk
Both of the above are wrong
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