Which file allocation method stores a file in a set of contiguous disk blocks?
Options
- A. Linked allocation
- B. Indexed allocation
- C. Contiguous allocation
- D. More than one of the above
- E. None of the above
Quiz Practice:
C. Contiguous allocation
Explanation: In contiguous allocation, all blocks of a file are stored consecutively on the disk. It provides fast sequential and direct access, but it can suffer from external fragmentation and may make file growth difficult.