Fat16 Older Ms Dos File System Fat16 Quickly Fell Favor Storage Sizes Grew Rapidly Maximum Q37098629

FAT16 is an older MS-DOS file system. FAT16 quickly fell out offavor as storage sizes grew rapidly. The maximum volume size forFAT16 is 2GB of space.

What does the cluster size have to be for it to run on a 2GBvolume?

Explain why this cluster size is needed and why FAT16 cannot gobeyond 2GB of storage space.


Answer


1) The cluster size should be 32KB in order to have FAT 16 runon a 2GB volume.

2) Cluster size are the smallest amount of disk space that canbe used to hold a file. When the size of the file doesnot come outto an even

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