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Student A:

File management systems

This is the collective name for the software that manages data files in a computer system. As
well as allowing the use of utilities such as copying and deleting of files which were described
above, it allows files to be named so that each separate file can be identified by the system. It
allows you to name files using combinations of the majority of characters on a keyboard.
Certain characters, however, are not allowed in file names such as characters used to indicate
directory prefixes or file path separators. It also allows directories to be created so that the
user can store groups of similar types of files within different directories. A file management
system is used to arrange the files, and move them from directory to directory. It manages
how the files are organised as well as how they are stored. The user interface displays these
files. The system lets you browse, move, and sort the files using different criteria such as date
of last modification, date of creation, file type and size, for example. The system may contain
features that enable users to generate reports as well as copy files, delete files, edit metadata
and more. The metadata associated with a file consists of the file name, the size of the file, the
location of the file on the disk, when it was created, when it was last edited and other
properties.

Student B:

Disk Management systems

Disk Management systems software is a collection of utilities which, as the name suggests,
help users to manage their hard disk(s). Many of these utilities have been described above.
These utilities are used to format disks, partition hard disks, compress the data on hard disks,
defragment disks and back up disks. There are other utilities within disk management
systems, which have not been previously described, that allow users to assign different names
to disks, set up or initialise a new disk drive, extend a disk volume, shrink a partition and
change the letter of the disk drive. When a user looks at a PC running Microsoft ® Windows
®, they can see the disk drive labels such as Windows (C:) and Data (D:). These are actually
partitions of the main hard disk. It is possible to rename these partitions to names which the
user feels more familiar with. Similarly, new partitions can be made for storing photos or
personal documents, etc. These can be named or renamed Photos and Personal, for example.
Extending a disk volume is actually just increasing the storage space allocated to a particular
partition. The utility does this by reallocating any unallocated space on the hard disk. One
way of doing this is to delete another partition. The storage space previously occupied by the
now deleted partition becomes ‘unallocated’ and can be used by the disk management system
to make the particular partition larger. An alternative approach is to shrink a partition, i.e.
make it smaller in size.

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