Mounted phone memory card shows incorrect disk size.

cj debiani386 at gmail.com
Wed May 9 12:15:52 UTC 2007


Johan Grönqvist wrote:
> tis 2007-05-08 klockan 21:53 +0200 skrev Thomas Kaiser:
>   
>> As far as I know FAT32 _is_ limited to 2 GiB, because of the file 
>> allocation table (32 Bytes?). So I assume that FAT16 can only address 
>> half or even less?
>>     
>
> Wikipedia claims that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat16) the volume
> size ( I assume this is partition size) is limited to 2 GiB or 4 GiB in
> fat16 (implementation dependent), and to 8 Terabyte (!) on fat32. I
> believe the file size limits are not important to me, but only the
> limits on volume size.
>
> / johan
>
>
>
>   
actually fat16 is limited to 2 gig..fat32 is limited to 2tb.

--cj




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