How are disk clusters numbered by Microsoft file structures?

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ANSWER: Clusters are numbered sequentially starting at 0 in NTFS and 2 in FAT. The first sector of all disks contains a system area, the boot record, and a file structure database. The OS assigns these cluster numbers, which are referred to as logical addresses. They point to relative cluster positions; for example, cluster address 100 is 98 clusters from cluster address 2. Sector numbers, however, are referred to as physical addresses because they reside at the hardware or firmware level and go from address 0 (the first sector on the disk) to the last sector on the disk. Clusters and their addresses are specific to a logical disk drive, which is a disk partition.

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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A start_new_page module is added to handle the paging. This module is called from the detail_processing module whenever the line_count has previously exceeded the lines_per_page. To insure that the line limit will never be exceeded, the test is made immediately before each name is printed in the report. Notice that the first page is forced by initializing line_count to 99. Because lines_per_page

includes the title and spacing lines, line_count is reset to 2 at the start of each new page, not zero. For now, the summary line continues to print just below the final detail line, regardless of whether the page is full. A blank spacing line is part of starting a new page. This is handled by a blank line variable set to the null string ("”) in the initial-processing module. What will be an ideal response?

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