Practice - Counting
Practice Questions
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What is the counting method?
💡 Hint: Think about how this might differ from listing every individual block.
Name one advantage of the counting method.
💡 Hint: Consider the overall efficiency discussed.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the counting method in free-space management maintain?
💡 Hint: Focus on how the method represents free space.
True or False: The counting method is ineffective for managing fragmented free space.
💡 Hint: Recall the limitations discussed.
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Challenge Problems
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Consider a situation where a file system using the counting method has a free space representation of: (100, 5), (200, 10), (300, 2). If 7 blocks are allocated starting from block 200, what will be the new free space representation?
💡 Hint: Focus on how the counts are adjusted when allocation happens.
Propose a strategy for addressing fragmentation in a file system that uses the counting method. How would you merge adjacent freed blocks?
💡 Hint: Think about how you might identify adjacent blocks in memory.
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