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> Or, to bring it back to hard drives: what's the max file size of a file stored on a FAT32 filesystem again? That is not about hard drives, that is about the
by vikingerik 4y ago
> Or, to bring it back to hard drives: what's the max file size of a file stored on a FAT32 filesystem again?
That is not about hard drives, that is about the abstraction layer of FAT32, which uses a 32-bit quantity for size.
FAT32 could be used for a storage device that stores things based on powers-of-10 sizes. It's just an implementation detail if anything happens to do it with powers of 2 underneath.
- colanderman 4y ago> FAT32 could be used for a storage device that stores things based on powers-of-10 sizes Not without wasting lots of space. FAT32 only allows sector sizes of 512, 1024, 2048, or 4096 bytes. [1] https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cop4610t/assignments/project3/spec/fatspec.pdf https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cop4610t/assignments/project3/spec/f...