File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default filesystem for MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems...

exFAT (Extensible File Allocation Table) is a file system introduced by Microsoft in 2006 and optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and SD...

allocation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Allocation may refer to: Block allocation map C++ allocators Delayed allocation File allocation table IP...

filesystem. The file is partitioned into Sectors which are chained together with a File Allocation Table (not to be mistaken with the file system of the...

was common with some operating systems that supported the File Allocation Table (FAT) file system. Examples of operating systems that do not impose this...

Second chain (6 clusters) for a non-fragmented file (here: #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8) The File Allocation Table (FAT) is a contiguous number of sectors immediately...

FAT16 and FAT32 maintaining two copies (FAT 0 and FAT 1) of the file allocation table instead of two identical ones. While performing a drive operation...

the default file system of the Windows NT family. It superseded File Allocation Table (FAT) as the preferred filesystem on Windows and is supported in...

In computing, the NetWare File System (NWFS) was a file system based on a heavily optimized, journal-based FAT file system. It was used in the Novell...

occurs when a file is deleted from the directory listing, but the File Allocation Table (FAT) still shows the clusters allocated to the file. The term cluster...