Operating Systems 2014F Final Exam Review
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Concepts
- file sizes (logical versus blocks consumed)
- mounting a fs
- changes in filesystem hierarchy
- concept of a "root" filesystem
- privileges required
- loopback mounts and files
- holes in files
- stat on files
Sample Questions
- If a program "seek"'s on a zero length file to position 100,000 and then writes one byte, what would you expect the file's logical length to be? What about its physical size (space consumed on disk)?