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Re: Fat ...12 ! ! ?
From:
Marc Guise <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 27 Nov 1999 10:49:08 +0200
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At 00:03 27/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was recently checking a hard disk partition with fdisk, and was surprised
>to read FAT 12.  Could someone explain to me how this fat 12 configuration
>ended up on a partition.  I thought there was only FAT 16 and FAT 32.

FAT 12 is used on any partition under 16 Mb. It is also used on all floppy
disks. If you want to use FAT 16, you'll need to increase the partition
size to over 16 Mb
Marc

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