Practice - Tracks and sectors
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Practice Questions
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What is a track on a disk?
💡 Hint: Think of it as a ring on the disk.
What does a sector do?
💡 Hint: It is like a small box where data is kept.
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What is a track?
💡 Hint: Visualize how data is arranged around the disk.
Each sector typically holds how many bytes of data?
💡 Hint: Think about the size of a small file.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a layout for a hypothetical disk with 10 tracks and 8 sectors per track. What would be the total number of sectors on the disk?
💡 Hint: Consider how multiplication applies to organize sectors.
In a scenario where sectors are overfilled due to excessive fragmentation, how would you approach reorganizing this data on the disk?
💡 Hint: Think about a tidy organization in a room.
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