What are the different types of fragmentation?



What are the different types of fragmentation?..

Answer / Mukesh Sharma

The three main types of fragmentation in operating systems are Internal Fragmentation (unavoidable due to fixed-size partitions), External Fragmentation (occurs when adjacent free memory blocks are too small to accommodate a request), and Mandatory or Logical Fragmentation (results from the structure of the file system).

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