What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?

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What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?..

Answer / wilmar

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What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?..

Answer / jothi lakshmi

physical file:physical file is an object of *file it
contains orginal data.


Logical File: contains only an index to the data stored into
the physical files.

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What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?..

Answer / subbaro.d

IN PF IT TAKES MEMORY AND IN LF DONT TAKE MEMORY ONLY READ ONLY

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What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?..

Answer / ka

the physical file exists on ssd(secondary storage), logical
is not exists on ssd

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What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?..

Answer / sasi

1.IN PF WE CAN VIEW ALL THE DATA
2.IN LF WE CAN SORT THE DATA(WE CAN SEE ONLY LIMITED DATA)

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What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?..

Answer / vishal

PH file is the core data file.
where LF is the duplicate value of ph file that is use only
for display.

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What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?..

Answer / rk

physical representation a file may take, the logical view
of a unix file is the same

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What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?..

Answer / harish

hi guys, i also have one aswer for logical and physical files
correct me if im wrong.

logical file= file which is in memory {temporary}

physical file = which is stored on an external
disk...{external storage medium}


what do u recon guys?

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