UNDERSTANDING COMPUTER FILES
FILE SYSTEMS
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Question
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Slack space lets us ____
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Make a small file bigger without fragmenting data
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Make a big file smaller by compressing data
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Break a large file into smaller chunks
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Quickly erase data
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Definition(s): The unused space in a file allocation block or memory page that may hold residual data.
Detailed explanation-2: -Too, slack space may hold the remnants of multiple deleted files; that is, as overlapping artifacts: files written, deleted overwritten by new data, deleted again, then overwritten again (just less extensively so). Slack can be a real mess.
Detailed explanation-3: -Unallocated space is free space on a hard drive that can be used to store data. It is a discrete number of clusters. Slack space is the unused space between the end of the actual file and the end of the cluster.
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