File systems including FAT32 (File Allocation Table)

Introduction

FAT8

The table is a linked list of cluster locations. at end of linked list is end of file. cluster iss fixed amount of space. bitness is size of values linking to clusters. max size = bitness * cluster size.

No garbage management or inodes.

FAT12

Introduced after FAT8.

FAT32

Introduced after FAT12.