TestOut File Systems 5.5

Partition Types: (not partition styles/schemes)

This type is the 1st to boot and there can only be one of these types of partition.

• Active

• Dyamic

• Primary

• Extended

• Swap

Method an OS uses to store, organize, and manage files and directories on a storage device

• Metadata

• Page File

• File System

• Partition Scheme

A new disk will typically need to be _________ before it can prepared for use by an operating system.

• Parition

• Initialized

• Format

• cloned

_________ prepares a partition to install a File System onto the drive.

• Paritioning

• Initializing

• Formatting

• cloning

Katie bought a new SD card that is 16 GB in size.  She plans to store various files such as word documents, text files and small images like animated Katy Perry .gifs.  What would be the best choice of file system to format the card to?

• NTFS

• exFAT

• FAT32

• APFS

• ext4

Supports up to 4 primary partitions—But if you need more, then you can make one of the primary partitions as an “extended partition” and create many logical partitions inside of the extended partition

• MBR

• GPT

The number of partitions is only limited by the operating system installed on the storage drive. For example, Windows will allow up to 128 partitions!

• MBR

• GPT

Coen has a storage drive with 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition. What would be the most likely partition style for this drive?

• MBR

• GPT

What program does Microsoft include with Windows to partition and format a drive?

More compatible with varying hardware & OS (old or new)

• MBR

• GPT