Quiz #33

• Disk management - is the process of configuring and managing storage disks. It involves creating, deleting, and formatting partitions.
• Operating system setup - the installation and initial booting of the OS
• Third party drivers - if the hardware is not supported by the OS
• Installers - usually prepare the disk to receive the operating system
• Partitions - hard drive is divided into areas. Each partition is a logical storage unit that can be formatted to store information, such as data files or applications
• Firmware - must know what disk and partition on that disk has an operating system installed
• Partition scheme - has a direct influence on the location of the operating system on a disk.
• Master boot record - contains information on how the hard drive partition are organized.
• GUID partition table - (standard for hard drive) the gpt makes use of a number of modern techniques to expand in the older MBR partitioning scheme.
• hard drive - can be segmented into different types of partitions and logical drives.
• Primary partitions - contains the operating system files and is usually the first partition.
• Active Partition - is the partition used to store and boot an operating system.
• logical drive - is a section of an extended partition. It can be used to separate information for administrative purposes.
• Basic disk - (the default) contains partitions such as primary and extended as well as logical drives that are formatted for data storage.
• Dynamic disk - provides features not supported by the basic disk. Has the ability to create volumes that span more than one disk.
• Formatting - process creates a file system on a partition for storage or files.
• File system - provides the directory structure that organizes the user's operating system, application, configuration, and data files.
• File allocation table, 32-bit (FAT32) - supports partition size up to 2 TB, or 2048 GB.
• new technology file system (ntfs) - supports partition size up to 16 EB. Incorporates file system security features and extended attributes.
• exFAT (FAT64) - was created to address some of the limitations of FAT, FAT32, and NTFS when formatting USB flash drives, such as file size and directory size.
• Compact Disc File System (CDFS) - was created specifically for optical dics media.
• Network file system (NFS) - is a -based file system that allows file access over the network.
• Quick format - removes file from the partition but does not scan the disk for bad sectors.
• Full format - removes file from the partition while scanning the disk for bad sectors.