On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/2/2014 6:33 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: >> FAT16 is limited to 8 gigs but FAT32 goes much higher. I kinda remember >> Wikopedia saying 2T but could easily be wrong. >> > Excuse me? > FAT16 is limited to 2 (two) Gigabyte with the 'standard" maximum cluster > size of 32KB.
IIRC, the 32K maximum cluster size was a limitation in the format utility. > With the 64GB cluster size supported by Windows NT 4.0, > you could have 4GB for a FAT16 partition, but that is absolutely end of > the line. And MS had already implemented FAT32 to get around the 2GB volume size limit, as hard drives increased in size and using FAT16 meant multiple partitions, each with a different drive letter. While you might be *able* to create a 4GB FAT16 volume using Windows NT 4, I can't imagine why you would *want* to. > There never was (or can be) an OS that creates 8GB FAT16 > partitions. And I am pretty sure that Wikipedia doesn't say anything to > the contrary either... It does not. > Ralf ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
