📝 Space maps Free Space Management

Q1. A file begins at disk block 120. To directly access the 7th block of the file, which disk block address must be read?

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: A

Q2. Given free holes of sizes 10, 8, 20, and 6 blocks (in that order) and a request for 7 blocks, which allocation algorithm will leave the smallest amount of unused space after allocation?

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: B

Q3. A file needs 35 contiguous blocks but the largest free chunk is only 30 blocks. Which allocation method can store the file without requiring defragmentation?

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: A