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To: John Chen who wrote (5662)4/1/1998 6:29:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
Can't pretend anymore, what is 'FAT'?

File Allocation Table. Old-style DOS FATs had 16-bit entries whereas FAT-32 has 32-bit entries. With FAT-16 the max size of a disk partition is 2 gig (hence an 8 gig disk would be drives C:,D:,E:, and F:) and each allocation cluster on those partitions would be 32k (a 1-byte file would consume 32k of disk space). With FAT-32 it could be one partition and would have a cluster size of 4k (?) to boot.