What do you do to calculate the following questions below?Please provide feed ba

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What do you do to calculate the following questions below?Please provide feed back step-by-step on how calculation is doneand why it is so. I need to have a good understanding on that.Thanks

Consider a file system on a disk that has a logical block sizeof 512 bytes and assume that the information about each file (i.e.,the folder) is already in memory and that each pointer requires 16bytes under linked and indexed allocation methods, answer thefollowing questions:

(a)    How many blocks are required forstoring a 98KB file under contiguous, linked, and indexedallocation methods? Note that 1KB is 1024 bytes.

(b)   How many blocks must be read from the diskunder linked allocation when the userwants to access data on the 9857th byte of thatfile?

(c)    How many blocks must be read fromthe disk under indexed allocation whenthe user wants to access data on the 8957th byte of thatfile?

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