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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 4 Question 26 (Page No. 334)

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What would happen if the bitmap or free list containing the information about free disk blocks was completely lost due to a crash? Is there any way to recover from this disaster, or is it bye-bye disk? Discuss your answers for $UNIX$ and the $FAT -16$ file system separately.
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