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  1. The data blocks of a very large file in the Unix file system are allocated using
    1. contiguous allocation
    2. linked allocation
    3. indexed allocation
    4. an extension of indexed allocation
Correct Option: D

Indexed allocation is used for the efficient direct access good use of disk space. However, it cannot allocate very large files. Thus, the data blocks of very large file in unix system are allocated using an extension of indexed allocation or EXT2 file system.



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