Block allocation map

Block allocation map

[
Commodore 1541 "Test/Demo Disk" is displaying a portion of the block allocation map for that disk.] In computer file systems, a block allocation map (BAM) is a data structure used to track the allocated or freed disk blocks.

ee also

*File Allocation Table


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