Applied Course | Mock GATE | Test 1 | Question: 51

Question

Which of the following statements is/are True?

1. File allocation Table (FAT) suffers from external fragmentation.
2. An inode structure can contain pointers to directory data.

 

• A. Only I
• B. Only II
• C. Both I and II
• D. Neither I nor II

Answer 1

I. False; FAT table assumes fixed-sized pages which have internal, not external fragmentation.
II. True; inodes contain pointers to file or directory data; directories are typically stored just like files, but with a special bit set in the inode.