The properties of FAT32
FAT32 is a part of the FAT file system family, which was developed by Microsoft. "FAT" stands for "File Allocation Table", what means "file allocation table".
- Compared to the previous FAT16, the maximum size of the entire file system of two gigabytes has been increased to eight terabytes.
- The maximum size of a file on a FAT32 System is four gigabytes.
- There's also Non-Windows systems, for example, to run OS X or Linux, with FAT32, it is often used on USB Sticks and other portable storage media.
Together with Windows NT/2000, Microsoft has introduced the FAT32 successor to NTFS. Here read, in which points the two systems differ.
