file allocation table
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A table used internally by the operating system to keep track of the structure of a disk and where files are stored on it.
- […], although their access involves traversing the indirection in the file allocation table.2006, Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere, Operating Systems: A Concept-based Approach, 2nd edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, page 346:
- The file allocation table needs just a single entry for each file, […]2008, A. A. Puntambekar, I. A. Dhotre, Systems Programming, 3ʳᵈ revised edition, Technical Publications Pune, page 13:20
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- For the file allocation table type of file systems, an entire file system allocation table is large and requires many disk sectors to store, […]2008, Bruce Jacob, Spencer W. Ng, David T. Wang, Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk, Morgan Kaufmann, page 691
- Synonyms
- FAT
- Related terms
- allocation table, file table