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Filesystem Recovery Course - File Storage Basics Test
What is an alternative name for cluster?
chunk
stripe
block
sector
A filesystem, if possible, tries to allocate clusters sequentially
true
false
Check what makes carving impossible
sparse storage
compression
fragmentation
deduplication
journaling
copy-on-write
checksums
What is fragmentation?
when a file is stored in several non-contiguous fragments
when two files have identical fragments
What is a sparse file?
a file containing more than two identical blocks
a file containing zeros which are not actually stored on the disk
a file consisting of more than one fragment
a file containing a compressed block
What is a compressed file?
a file containing zeros which are not actually stored on the disk
a file containing fragments stored on disk in compressed form
a file containing more than two identical blocks
a file consisting of more than one fragment
Check optional properties for a file
access rights
file extension
content
size
name
data and time of file creation
Check properties a file required to have
data and time of file creation
access rights
name
content
size
What is carving?
discovering files by searching the disk by file header signatures
discovering files by searching the disk by file names
discovering files by searching the disk by file hashes
Check filesystem features which facilitate data recovery
copy-on-write
deduplication
compression
checksums
journaling
fragmentation
Next lesson - File Metadata
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