Sometimes, the term "file system" is used in the context of partitions.For example, saying "There are two file systems on my hard drive" doesn't mean the drive is split between NTFS and FAT, but ...

Drives are mapped to folders in the FAT file system, so a folder named ‘A’ will show up as the A: disk in CP/M. Drives up to P: are supported, the maximum number of drives available under CP/M.

Always the right file system. FAT32 works so universally that you can hardly go wrong with it. The biggest limitation, as we have already pointed out, is the file size limit of 4GB.

When a 1-byte file can hog up to 32 KB of disk storage, it's no wonder they call it a FAT file system. In this Daily Drill Down, Brien Posey examines partitions and clusters, and he explains how ...

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this...I'm looking for a description of how the fat filesystem works. I found the document put out by Microsoft FAT: General Overview of On-Disk Format ...

FAT disks are no longer supported—more surprisingly, nor is the new ReFS file system. ... these usage scenarios and that it's only a bug or an oversight that allowed non-NTFS volumes to work.

Microsoft has made its last remaining File Allocation Table (FAT) file system's intellectual property, the Extended FAT (exFAT) patents, available to Linux and open-source developers via the Open ...