Origin of "partition" in storage devices
Grant Taylor
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Mon Jan 31 16:24:55 CST 2022
On 1/31/22 2:43 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> Partitions may have appeared in DOS/Windows for much the same reason;
> with 32 KB clusters, FAT16 filesystems were limited to 2GB.
I think the same type of problem happened with the really old FAT-12 to
FAT-16 conversion.
Wasn't FAT-12 limited to something near 31 MB?
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