UNDERSTANDING COMPUTER FILES
FILE SYSTEMS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The FAT32 cluster values are represented by 32-bit numbers, of which 28 bits are used to hold the cluster number. The boot sector uses a 32-bit field for the sector count, limiting the FAT32 volume size to 2 TB for a sector size of 512 bytes and 16 TB for a sector size of 4, 096 bytes.
Detailed explanation-2: -, which has a rather low limit for how large a file it can have. This limit is 4GB-1, or exactly 4, 294, 967, 295 bytes. If a file is larger than that, the FAT32 file system can’t store it, and an attempt to transfer large files to a FAT32 formatted drive gives an error.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why Are FAT32 Drives Limited to 4GB Files? Since FAT32 is 32-bit, the maximum possible value (all 1’s) for that 32-bit field is 2^32, which counts to 4 Gigabytes. Hence FAT32 can support a maximum file size of 4GB.