A disk of size 512M bytes is divided into blocks of 64K bytes. A file is…

GATE · 2025 · CS · Set 1 · Computer Science & IT

A disk of size 512M bytes is divided into blocks of 64K bytes. A file is stored in the disk using linked allocation. In linked allocation, each data block reserves 4 bytes to store the pointer to the next data block. The link part of the last data block contains a NULL pointer (also of 4 bytes). Suppose a file of 1M bytes needs to be stored in the disk. Assume, 1K = 210 and 1M = 220 . The amount of space in bytes that will be wasted due to internal fragmentation is ______.(Answer in integer)

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