Answer: Garbage collection
Notes: Garbage collection involves traversing the entire file system, marking everything that can be accessed. Then, a second pass collects everything that is not marked onto a list of free space. Garbage collection for a disk-based file system, however, is extremely time-consuming and is thus seldom attempted. Garbage collection is necessary only because of possible cycles in the graph.
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