Sec. 17 Disk Partitioning

Question 1

Rotational disks are composed of one or more….?

Answer 1

Platters

Question 2

Partitions , in geometrical terms, consist of physically ___________ ________ of sectiors or cylinders

Answer 2

continous groups

Question 3

The circular tracks of a rotational disk are divided into data blocks called…..?

Answer 3

sectors ,

which are usually 512 bytes in size.

Question 4

there are two partitionion layouts currently in use. what are they?

Answer 4

1. MBR (Master boot record )
2. GPT ( GUID Partition Table)

Question 5

If I would like to see the partition table what command would I use?

Answer 5

fdisk -l /dev/sda

Question 6

the circular tracks are broken down into …..?

Answer 6

data blocks

Question 7

Descibe the disk type: SATA(serial advanced technology attachment )

Answer 7

SATA disks were designed to replace the old IDE drives. they offer a smaller cable size ( 7 pins), native hot swapping, and faster and more efficient data transfer. they are seen as SCSI devices

Question 8

A partition is a ……?

Answer 8

A partition is a contiguous region on disk .

Question 9

the heads of rotational disk read the platter in a ______ track

Answer 9

circular

Question 10

a cylinder of a rotational disk is a group which consists of the same _____ on all ________.

Answer 10

track, platters

Question 11

what does SATA stand for ?

Answer 11

Serial adavanced technology attachment

Question 12

Disks are divided into ……..?

Answer 12

Partitions

Question 13

Each platter on a rotation disk is read by one or more….?

Answer 13

heads