Chapter 10 Flashcards
A. Done at the factory
B. Defines sectors, cylinders, and their placement on the disk
low level formatting
A. Done by the user
B. Divides the disk into partitions
C. Hold the data you want to store
D. Defines indexing system to track the locations of that data
high level formatting
sectioning a hard drive or other storage devices
partitioning
A. Used to partition a hard drive (High-level)
B. Third party applications can also be used
Fdisk command
A. Used to partition a hard drive (High-level)
B. Third party applications can also be used
format command
- Contains primary partitions and logical drives
- Formatted with a file system to become a volume for
file storage - most often used with windows
basic disk
- Offer greater flexibility for volume management
- Use a database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk in
the computer - Each dynamic disk in a computer stores a replica of the dynamic disk
database - Easily repairs each others database
- Operations performed on dynamic disks:
A. Create and delete simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID-5
volumes
B. Create volumes that span multiple disks (spanned and striped volumes)
C. Create fault-tolerant volumes (mirrored and RAID-5 volumes)
D. Extend a simple or spanned volume
E. Repair mirrored or RAID-5 volumes
F. Reactivate a missing or offline disk
dynamic disk
A.Active partition or bootup partition
B.Only a primary partition can be
designated as active
primary partition
A.Can have up to 4 separate primary partitions or 3 primary and 1 extended B.Only 1 extended partition per disk C.Can be subdivided into a maximum of 23 sections called logical drives
extended partition
boot up partition
active partition
sub sections of a drive. There can be up to 23 sections of logical drives.
logical drives
groups of files
directories
the first directory
root directory
the name for a directory under windows
folder
the file system of a floppy disk
FAT 12
- Designed for small disks and simple folder structures
- Named for its method of organization
- Resides at the beginning of the volume
- To protect the volume, two copies of the table are kept
- File allocation tables and the root folder must be stored
in a fixed location - Allocated in clusters
- Cluster sizes of 2KB to 32KB
- Default cluster size is determined by the size of the
volume - Maximum of 65,526 clusters
10.Supports drives up to 2GB
FAT 16
1. Derivative from the File Allocation Table (FAT) file system 2. Supports drives with over 2GB 3. Can contain up to 268,435,456 clusters 4. Cluster sizes (4KB-32KB) 5. 4GB minus 2 bytes maximum file size
FAT 32
- High-performance and self-healing file system
- Proprietary to Windows NT, 2000, XP Vista, 7, and
8 - Features include:
A.File-level security, compression and auditing
B.Supports large volumes
C.Built-in RAID support
D.Ability to encrypt files and folders
E.More efficient drive management due to its
smaller cluster size capabilities
F. Recoverable file system capabilities
NTFS
GUID partition table
GPT
1.Created when you create the first partition
2.Most important data structure on the disk
3.Is the first sector on every disk
4.Located at track (cylinder) 0, side (head) 0, and
sector 1
5.Contains the Partition Table
6.Contains a small amount of executable code
MBR