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In essence it's a file that is stored on the filesystem in one piece - that is that all parts of the file are stored from beginning to end in adjascent allocation units instead of being fragmented and each piece of the file stored in separate, non adjascent allocation units. As an analogy, imagine a 10 page document. If you place all the pages on your desk in order from beginning to end without anything in between them you could say it's a contiguous file. If you had room to put five pages down in order but then had to put the other five pages elsewhere on your desk, you could say the file was fragmented. In essence it's a file that is stored on the filesystem in one piece - that is that all parts of the file are stored from beginning to end in adjascent allocation units instead of being fragmented and each piece of the file stored in separate, non adjascent allocation units. As an analogy, imagine a 10 page document. If you place all the pages on your desk in order from beginning to end without anything in between them you could say it's a contiguous file. If you had room to put five pages down in order but then had to put the other five pages elsewhere on your desk, you could say the file was fragmented.
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What is a contiguous file in a computer?
A contiguous file in a computer is one that is placed on a storage drive in such a way that it is in sequential portions of the drive. This is generally regarded as advantageous because it results in better performance by decreasing the amount of time it takes the computer to read the data (compared to when a single file is spread over a larger portion of the drive and not located in contiguous sectors). The performance gains experienced from contiguous files is the best reason to defragment a drive.
What is meant by defragment?
To organize the way that files are stored on a computer disk, so that all the information belonging to a file, is stored on a single contiguous area on the disk.
Is used to reduce file fragmentation because a block of contiguous disk storage can be reserved for a file?
journal
What command to move data on drive c so that all clusters of a file are in contiguous locations on the drive?
Defrag is the command to move all clusters of a file to contiguous locations. If you don't want to use the command line version, you could go to My Computer or Computer, right click on the drive you want to defragment, go to properties, and choose the option to defragment from there. Or you can go get something like Defragler or another 3rd party defragmentation program.
What is a specific location on the computer indicating preciesely where a file can be found?
There are two parts to this. One, the information in the File Allocation Table, as the file might be spread over different sectors, not all contiguous if your filesystem is fragmented. Two, this would be the specific sectors at which the data resides that make up the contents of the file. Cheers, Chay
What are defragmentation programs?
They take all of the fragmented pieces of files on your hard drive and consolidate them back into contiguous files. This can speed up performance since your computer doesn't have to search for the file fragments.
What utility should be used to rearrange all files and applications into contiguous groups so that the computer can access quickly?
you can get your file easilyyou dont need to search it.just go to particular folder an get your files.
File allocation methods in operating system?
Contiguous Allocation Linked Allocation Indexed Allocation
What is a piece of information stored on your computer?
Defragmentation. This is when your hard drive restores each file to one contiguous location to reduce data access time and allows storage to be used more efficiently.Hope this helps.
Can a delimited file be a file where the length of a file is limited?
Yes, it can be. In computer programming, the term delimited refers to a file in which individual data values have embedded delimiters. The delimiters can be quotation marks, commas and tabs. Deliminters are used to separate words or phrases in a string of contiguous character data to define the beginning or end. Delimited text files are also called delimiter-separated values file (CSV or DSM).
What is a library file and give examples?
A library file on a computer is the user's personal file. It could be a series of pictures downloaded to the computer, documents scanned into the computer, or a music file.
What is a grandfather file?
a grandfather file is the oldest file on the computer...
