ipod madness

[Art Alexion]

There is no point to using FAT16.  Some reviews indicate that -- on small 
partitions -- FAT16 may be faster because it is smaller, but were talking 
<512 MB partitions (the FAT16 max).  That is the only advantage.  The size of 
the fat32 table is negligible in relation to the total disc.  Slack, on the 
other hand affects all files, large and small.  The effect is greater with 
lots of small files than with a few large files, but it is ALWAYS an 
inefficiency regardless of the size.

Some URLs
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/50cd4ffc-1389-423d-9d02-1a898b2eb39f1033.mspx
http://www.dewassoc.com/support/win98/fat.htm
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/fatFATs-c.html
http://home.no.net/tkos/info/fat.html
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/file/fileFAT.html
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/file/part.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~doniteli/index20.htm
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1157849,00.asp
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/fileFAT32-c.html


On Thursday 27 April 2006 04:34, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> After formatting the drive the FAT cannot grow but there is no reason why
> when you format the partition it cannot use more/less space is there?
>
> On Thursday 27 April 2006 10:06, Art Alexion wrote:
> > I could be wrong, but I understood that the limitation on windows
> > partitions and on block size choices is that the FAT cannot grow.

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