Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Parallel and Distributed Storage
A parallel storage file system is a sort of clustered file system. A clustered file system is a storage system shared by multiple devices simultaneously.
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On a disk drive formatted by MS-DOS, how might you determine the number of sectors used by each cluster?

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  • The task is to determine the number of sectors used by each cluster which involves first to know the details of the physical storage of the drive. The command prompt is to be opened with administrative privilege and the command will be run as : fsutil fsinfo ntsfinfo <drive name>: 
  • To get the details of Physical sector of a drive using windows command, it can be followed as :

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By this command, 'bytes per Sector' and 'bytes per cluster' are known now. It is easier now to find out the required result of the number of sectors used by each cluster.

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