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file allocation table en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A table used internally by the operating system to keep track of the structure of a disk and where files are stored on it.
    • […], although their access involves traversing the indirection in the file allocation table. 2006, Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere, Operating Systems: A Concept-based Approach, 2nd edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, page 346:
    • The file allocation table needs just a single entry for each file, […] 2008, A. A. Puntambekar, I. A. Dhotre, Systems Programming, 3ʳᵈ revised edition, Technical Publications Pune, page 13:20
    • For the file allocation table type of file systems, an entire file system allocation table is large and requires many disk sectors to store, […] 2008, Bruce Jacob, Spencer W. Ng, David T. Wang, Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk, Morgan Kaufmann, page 691

Forms

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Relateds

allocation table · file table

Synonyms

FAT

Translations (6)

ga tábla leithdháilte comhad (a computer file system architecture and industry standard) · sv filallokeringstabell (a computer file system architecture and industry standard) · ja ファイル・アロケーション・テーブル (a computer file system architecture and industry standard) · ru табли́ца размеще́ния фа́йлов (a computer file system architecture and industry standard) · cmn 文件配置表 (a computer file system architecture and industry standard) · fi tilanvaraustaulukko (a computer file system architecture and industry standard)