FAT The FAT (File Allocation Table) file system has its origins in the late 1970s and early1980s and was the file system supported by the Microsoft MS-DOS operating system. It was originally developed as a simple file system suitable for floppy disk drives less than 500K in size. Over time it has been enhanced to support larger and larger media. Currently there are three FAT file system types: FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32. The basic …showed first 75 words of 4412 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4412 total…names without wasting space. The structure of a directory entry is shown in this table: inode number<Tab/>entry length<Tab/>name length<Tab/>filename Sources: www.microsoft.com www.ntfs.com http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~calz/ermlinks/filesys.htm http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1154&nIdPage=7 http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html http://www.wlug.org.nz/FileAllocationTable