In message Pine.CYG.4.55.0311281315120.3560@sniper.ultra.si you wrote:
Thanks for the notice. Does anyone recommend any document about how data is physicaly stored on the hard drive ? I came across documents describing
The Linux filesystem code? ;-)
FAT16/FAT32 but not how an actual file (the data) is stored in clusters. Is a file data always spread troughout clusters continuosly or can a file
No, or your disks would be full very soon.
be spread around multiple group of clusters, say one part of file starting at 1 to 50 and the other part continuing at 100 to 120 ? Note that I am very new
It can be spread over many different clusters and groups of clusters - that's what they call "fragmentation", and for waht DOS filesystems recommend to use defragmentation tools to speed up file access.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk