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Uses
26 related topics
Variants
76 related topics
Extensions
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Derivatives
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- Attributes
- Read-only, hidden, system, volume, directory, archive
- Bad blocks
- Cluster tagging
- Date range
- 1980-01-01 to 2099-12-31 (2107-12-31)
- Date resolution
- 2 seconds for last modified time, · 2 seconds for creation time, · 1 day for access date, · 2 seconds for deletion time
- Dates recorded
- Modified date/time, creation date/time (DOS 7.0 and higher only), · access date (only available with ACCDATE enabled), · deletion date/time (only with DELWATCH 2)
- Developer(s)
- Microsoft, NCR, SCP, IBM, Compaq, Digital Research, Novell, Caldera
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Overview
- File system
- DOS
- Windows 9x
- Floppy disks Floppy disk
- Hard disks Hard disk drive
- VFAT File Allocation Table
- ExFAT
- NTFS
- Windows XP
- Solid-state storage
- USB flash drives USB flash drive
- SD cards SD card
- MultiMediaCards MultiMediaCard
- EMMC
- Operating systems Cross-platform software
- Embedded systems
- Terabytes Terabyte
- Bytes Byte
- Windows shell
- Command prompt
- PowerShell
- GB Gigabyte
- Windows 95
- DriveSpace 3
- Windows 98
- Windows 2000
- Windows NT 4.0
- Winternals
- DRFAT32
- IMS Intelligent Micro Software
Uses
- Windows NT
- Windows Me
- Windows Microsoft Windows
- ECMA Ecma International
- ISO International Organization for Standardization
- IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
- 8.3 filenames 8.3 filename
- Long filenames Long filename
- EFI system partition
- EFI Extensible Firmware Interface
- Linux
- Super-floppies Superfloppy
- Memory Memory card
- Flash memory
- USB flash drives
- PDAs Personal digital assistant
- Digital cameras Digital camera
- Camcorders Camcorder
- Media players Portable media player
- Game consoles Game console
- Embedded systems Embedded system
- Boomboxes Boombox
- DVD players DVD player
- Vehicle audio
- USB
- DCF Design rule for Camera File system
Technical details
- File Allocation Table Design of the FAT file system
- Linked list
- Cluster Cluster (file system)
Variants
- Marc McDonald
- Bill Gates
- 8-bit
- Microsoft
- Standalone Disk BASIC-80
- 8080 Intel 8080
- NCR 7200 model VI
- 8086 Intel 8086
- PDP-10
- MDOS/MIDAS MIDAS (operating system)
- Operating system
- Tim Paterson
- Seattle Computer Products
- Bob O'Rear
- Standalone Disk BASIC-86
- S-100 bus
- CPU Central processing unit
- Lifeboat Associates
- National Computer Conference
- QDOS 0.10
- CP/M
- File Control Blocks File Control Block
- 86-DOS
- 86-DOS 0.42
- 86-DOS 1.00
- MS-DOS
- IBM
- PC DOS
- MS-DOS 1.20
- 32-bit
Extensions
- Extended attributes Extended attribute
- Root directory
- Directory entry FAT directory entry
- OS/2 EAs OS/2 EA
- Installable file system
- EComStation
- ArcaOS ArcaOS?action=edit&redlink=1
- Workplace Shell
- REXX
- GUI Graphical user interface
- Command-line Command line interface
- 4OS2
- HPFS High Performance File System
- ADS Alternate Data Streams
- Cygwin
- User experience
- UCS-2
- Code units Code unit
- Backward Backward compatibility
- Forward compatibility
- Workaround
- VFAT VFAT long filename
- Virtual device driver VxD
- 3.5 Windows NT 3.5
- UVFAT
- OS/2 extended attributes FAT extended file attributes
- Human68K
- 18.3 filenames 18.3 filename
- Shift JIS
- Kanji
Derivatives
- NetWare File System
- NWFS
- Novell
- NetWare
- Turbo FAT
- Xbox Xbox (console)
- Video game console
- Hard disk
- Superblock Superblock (file systems)?action=edit&redlink=1
- BPBs FAT BPB
- OEM character set
- Epoch Epoch (computing)
- 1980 Epoch of 1980-01-01
- 2000 Epoch of 2000-01-01
- Xbox 360
- Windows Embedded CE 6.0
- Vista Service Pack 1 Windows Vista Service Pack 1
- Windows XP Service Pack 3
- Flash drives Flash drive
- SDXC
- Memory Stick XC
- IFS Installable File System
- VBR Volume Boot Record
- Reverse-engineered Reverse engineering
- SANS Institute
Patents
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO
- Xerox
- Patent infringement
- TomTom
- Motorola
- Android Android (operating system)
- ITC United States International Trade Commission
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Nodes228
Edges227
Triples83
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008772
Components1
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File Allocation Table
Top relations
related to exFAT · 13
File Allocation Table → FAT32, GB, It, Its, Memory Stick XC, November, SDXC, Vendors, Vista Service Pack, Windows Embedded CE, Windows XP Service Pack, Windows NT, Windows XP Update KB955704
related to Technical details · 7
File Allocation Table → As, Each, Even, FAT, Sub-directories, The, The FAT
File system permissions · 5
File Allocation Table → execute with only FlexOS, 4680 OS, 4690 OS;, FAT12/FAT16: File, directory and volume access rights for read, write, execute, delete only with DR-DOS, PalmDOS, Novell DOS, OpenDOS, FlexOS, 4680 OS, 4690 OS, Concurrent DOS,…, FAT32: Partial, only with DR-DOS, REAL/32 and 4690 OS, individual file / directory passwords not with FlexOS, 4680 OS, 4690 OS;, world/group/owner permission classes only with multiuser security loaded
Date resolution · 4
File Allocation Table → 1 day for access date,, 2 seconds for creation time,, 2 seconds for deletion time, 2 seconds for last modified time,
Partition IDs · 4
File Allocation Table → BDP: EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, FAT12: 0x01 e.a. (Extended Attribute), FAT16: 0x040x060x0E e.a., FAT32: 0x0B0x0C e.a.
Dates recorded · 3
File Allocation Table → access date (only available with ACCDATE enabled),, deletion date/time (only with DELWATCH 2), Modified date/time, creation date/time (DOS 7.0 and higher only),
Max no. of files · 3
File Allocation Table → FAT12: 4,068 for 8 KB clusters, FAT16: 65,460 for 32 KB clusters, FAT32: 268,173,300 for 32 KB clusters
Max volume size · 3
File Allocation Table → FAT12: 32 MB (256 MB for 64 KB clusters), FAT16: 2 GB (4 GB for 64 KB clusters), FAT32: 2 TB (16 TB for 4 KB sectors)
Transparent compression · 2
File Allocation Table → FAT12/FAT16: Per-volume, SuperStor, Stacker, DoubleSpace, DriveSpace, FAT32: No
Transparent encryption · 2
File Allocation Table → FAT12/FAT16: Per-volume only with DR-DOS, FAT32: No
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Important terminology
fat file fat32 fat16 system disk windows fat12 dos size microsoft directory ms-dos partition cluster support systems used operating filenames
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File Allocation Table | Attributes | Read-only, hidden, system, volume, directory, archive | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Bad blocks | Cluster tagging | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Date range | 1980-01-01 to 2099-12-31 (2107-12-31) | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Date resolution | 2 seconds for last modified time, | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Date resolution | 2 seconds for creation time, | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Date resolution | 1 day for access date, | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Date resolution | 2 seconds for deletion time | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Dates recorded | Modified date/time, creation date/time (DOS 7.0 and higher only), | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Dates recorded | access date (only available with ACCDATE enabled), | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Dates recorded | deletion date/time (only with DELWATCH 2) | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Developer(s) | Microsoft, NCR, SCP, IBM, Compaq, Digital Research, Novell, Caldera | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Directory contents | Table | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | File allocation | Linked list | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | File system permissions | FAT12/FAT16: File, directory and volume access rights for read, write, execute, delete only with DR-DOS, PalmDOS, Novell DOS, OpenDOS, FlexOS, 4680 OS, 4690 OS, Concurrent DOS,… | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | File system permissions | execute with only FlexOS, 4680 OS, 4690 OS; | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | File system permissions | individual file / directory passwords not with FlexOS, 4680 OS, 4690 OS; | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | File system permissions | world/group/owner permission classes only with multiuser security loaded | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | File system permissions | FAT32: Partial, only with DR-DOS, REAL/32 and 4690 OS | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Forks | Not natively | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Full name | File Allocation Table | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Introduced | 1977 (1977) with Standalone Disk BASIC-80 | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Max file size | 4,294,967,295 bytes (4 GB − 1) with FAT16B and FAT32 | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Max filename length | 8.3 filename, or 255 UCS-2 characters when using LFN[nb 1] | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Max no. of files | FAT12: 4,068 for 8 KB clusters | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Max no. of files | FAT16: 65,460 for 32 KB clusters | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Max no. of files | FAT32: 268,173,300 for 32 KB clusters | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Max volume size | FAT12: 32 MB (256 MB for 64 KB clusters) | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Max volume size | FAT16: 2 GB (4 GB for 64 KB clusters) | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Max volume size | FAT32: 2 TB (16 TB for 4 KB sectors) | 1.00 | infobox |
| File Allocation Table | Partition IDs | FAT12: 0x01 e.a. (Extended Attribute) | 1.00 | infobox |
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