Section 7 Book Chapter 9 Implementing Mass Storage Flashcards
What is a Swap partition?
Seperating a piece of the hard drive to be used as a swap file/ virtual ram
What is a recovery partition?
Allows you to bring the os back online
In windows how are partitions manifested as?
As drive letters
In Linux/macOS env how are partitions manifested?
As folders
What is a Master Boot Record?
Can do partitioning and tells the computer where to find the OS
What is LBA0?
Logic Block Addressing - used for specifying the location of blocks of data stored on computer storage devices
In the old MBR how many partitions could you have?
4
How many partitions could you have with (MBR) Mass Boot Record?
4 partitions
In windows what are extended partitions called?
Volumes
What is a logical drive on windows
A group drives that appear to your operating system single drive
What is GPT and what does it do?
Global Unique Identifier(GUID) Partition Table - modern partitioning interface
How many partitions can you have one drive in a GPT?
128 partitions per drive
What causes the following error to occur
Warning - Can not read LBA partitions
Protective MBR because if an older system plugs a GBT into it protects it from being erased
In order to use a drive you must do what two things?
partition and format in that order
What file formating system does windows use
NTFS
What file format system does MacOS use?
HFS
What is a file allocation table
A table that keeps track of things by a LBA basis where everything is on a partition
What is FAT16?
A type of file allocation table where each sector is expressed by 16 bytes
What is fragmentation?
the condition of a disk in which files are diivided into pieces scattered around the disk
What is NTFS? and what does it do?
New Technology File System - the modern FTA system for windows
What is a (MFT) Master File Table? and what does it do?
Master file Table, keeps records of all files in a volume, the files’ location in the directory, the physical location of the files in on the drive, and file metadata.
What is ExFAT?
A fts system for small drives like thumb drives
What is (CDFS) - Compact Disc File System? and what does it do
Compact Disc File System - used to file optical disks so that they work with the OS it can hold up to 4GiB
What are the two main FTS for linux?
ext3 and ext4
What is the main FTS for MacOS?
HFS+ (Hierarchal File System plus)
What does NTFS support
compression, encryption folder/file and security
What is Dynamic Disk
Allows you to shrink and expand, gives more flexibility, able to be put in a RAID design
What are the two types of encryption on storage devices
File-Based encryption and Disk-based encryption
What does File-Based Encryption do?
Allows you to encrypt files and folders
What does Disk-Based encryption do?
Allows you to encrypt entire drives
What is the windows Encryption system?
Encrypting File System (EFS)
What does Windows use for Disk-Based encryption
Bitlocker
