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Date: | Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:42:15 +0200 (IST) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
To: | Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: FAT32 file size |
In-Reply-To: | <199710222215.LAA25461@teleng1.tait.co.nz gatekeeper.tait.co.nz> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.971024124155.12317M-100000@is> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Bill Currie wrote: > Does anybody know the details on FAT32 file sizes? > Where are the extra 32 bits stored? Or are file sises still limited > to 32 bits (just unsigned rather than signed (ie 4G instead of 2G))? I think there's no extra 32 bits. AFAIK, FAT32 doesn't do anything about the size limitation besides making it unsigned (i.e. 4GB). The main improvement is that the clusters are smaller.
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