Disk partitions, must pass a formatting to use formal, common disk format: after formatting FAT (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, however, ext3, etc.
FAT16
This is the most early Win95
ms-dos and the most common type of operating system disk partition format. Using 16-bit file allocation table, it can support up to 2 gb hard drive,
Free Partition Magic alternative is currently the most widely used and won the most operating systems support a format disk partitions, almost all of the operating system to support the kinds of formats, from DOS, Win95, Win97 to Win98, Windows NT, Win2000, even the popular at that time L inux support this partition format. But in the FAT16 partition format, it has one of the biggest drawbacks:
disk utilization efficiency is low. Because in DOS and Wi ndows system, disk file is the allocation of a cluster, a cluster only assigned to a file is used, no matter how much the capacity of the files occupy the whole cluster. Like this, even if a file is very small, it also takes up a cluster, all the rest of the space is idle, there formed the waste disk space. Because of the limitation of partition table capacity FAT16 partition support, the greater the disk capacity of each cluster is, the greater the cause of waste. So, in order to solve this problem, Microsoft introduced a new disk in the Win97 FAT32 partition format.
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