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