Little FAT error :)

Little FAT error :)

Posted Nov 13, 2004 3:42 UTC (Sat) by cr (guest, #3685)
Parent article: Feather Linux: The Swiss Army Knife of LiveCDs (O'ReillyNet)

FAT16 has the 2GB limit. The whole point of FAT32 (introduced with Win95 OSR2, working as reliably as it gets with Win98) was to push that design limit out a ways (32G? I forget), while reducing the allocation-block size. The blocksize for a 2GB FAT16 partition is 32k, which results in a lot of typical-use slack, and even worse if you're text-oriented like most DOS-to-Linux migraters such as myself.

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