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- Let's take a brand new (empty) hard drive and write some files out
- to it. First, keep in mind that your system will always attempt
- to write data to a file in contiguous (consecutive) sectors starting
- with the first available sectors it finds. When data is first
- written to an empty drive, your system obviously has no trouble
- finding available contiguous space to write the file. Let's take a
- look at the result of the writing of 3 files to an empty disk...
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- File 1 - represented by "X" - each "X" represents a single 512 byte sector.
- File 2 - represented by "Y" - each "Y" represents a single 512 byte sector.
- File 3 - represented by "Z" - each "Z" represents a single 512 byte sector.
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXYYYYYYYYYYZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ │
- │ │
- │ │
- │ │
- │ │
- │ │
- └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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