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Question

Which of the following allocation scheme does not support direct access in file allocation scheme?

(a)Linked Allocation

(b)Indexed Allocation

(c)Contiguous Allocation

both (a) and (b)

Comments

Can you pls explain indexed and contiguous allocation in one line?

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Contiguous allocation is occupying blocks one after the other like ith block, i+1 th block and so on.

Indexed allocation contains an index block which contains pointers to all blocks occupied by a file.

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Good Read: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Operating_System_Design/File_Systems/Allocation

Answer 1

Answer will be {Linked allocation }