In article <SFYA1UQy889M092yn@csonline.net>,
bpaddock@csonline.net (Bob Paddock) wrote:
> There is a program called CVT that converts your windows 95
> system to FAT32. What it does is convert the File
> Allocation Tables from 12 bits to some thing larger (16 or
> 32 don't remember which).
Surely this is from 16 to 32 bits? 12 bit FATs are only used on small
diskettes.
> The practical up shot of this is that now a one byte file
> under FAT32 takes only 4K of disk space, where under the old
> FAT it would take 32K of space.
It is not correct to claim that it used 32k, or any particular size. It
depends on the hard disk size. With a 16-bit FAT, the disk is limited
to 2^16 (65536) clusters. The cluster size also has to be a power of 2.
For instance, FAT16 *does* have 4K clusters on disks/partitions smaller
than 256MB.