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Which of the following information about the UNIX file system is not correct? (A) Super block contains the number of i-nodes, the number of disk blocks, and the start of the list of free disk blocks. (B) An i-node contains accounting information as well as enough information to locate all the disk blocks that holds the file’s data. (C) Each i-node is 256-bytes long. (D) All the files and directories are stored in data blocks.

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Which of the following information about the UNIX file system is not correct? (A) Super block contains the number of i-nodes, the number of disk blocks, and the start of the list of free disk blocks. (B) An i-node contains accounting information as well as enough information to locate all the disk blocks that holds the file’s data. (C) Each i-node is 256-bytes long. (D) All the files and directories are stored in data blocks. 
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(C) Each i-node is 256-bytes long.
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