Wednesday 17 June 2015

Operating System

Operating System:
File System:
A typical system has the following main components:
Boot Block:
This portion of the file system contains all the neccessary routines and programs needed for the booting process of computer.
Super Block:
Administrative block, manages partitions and other control information.
Inode Block:
This is the store of Inode number of every file. Inode number is uniqly assigned to every file.
Data Block:
This is the biggest block. This contains the actual data divided into several segments. All the files and documents are choped into certain pieces and stored in a fixed manner in this protion of the file system.

Disk management is something done by the Operating System. This is amongst many other functions an operating system performs for the computer.

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