Free-Space Management

• Since disk space is limited, we need to reuse the space from deleted files for new files, if possible.
• To keep track of free disk space, the system maintains a free-space list. The free-space list records all free disk blocks.
• To create a file, we search the free-space list for the required amount of space and allocate that space to the new file.
• When a file is deleted, its disk space is added to the free-space list.