The beginning of a free-space bitmap looks like this after the disk partition is first formatted: 1000

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The beginning of a free-space bitmap looks like this after the disk partition is first formatted: 1000 0000 0000 0000 (the first block is used by the root directory). The system always searches for free blocks starting at the lowest-numbered block, so after writing file A, which uses six blocks, the bitmap looks like this: 1111 1110 0000 0000. Show the bitmap after each of the following additional actions:
(a) File B is written, using fiv e blocks.
(b) File A is deleted.
(c) File C is written, using eight blocks.
(d) File B is deleted.
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Modern Operating Systems

ISBN: 978-0133591620

4th edition

Authors: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos

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