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At 07:24 PM 10/16/00 +1300, you wrote:
>> > Windows NT supports FAT16 partitions up to 4GB.
>>
>> Really?  And what is the cluster size on those partitions?
>
>64Kb I think - twice what is supported in Win9x. This was
>in NT4, before FAT32 was supported. I presume the support
>is still there in Win2000.

Gotta love those massive cluster sizes :)

<sarcasm>Ooh!  In the future we will make 40 terabyte hard drives and the
cluster sizes will be 1GB.</sarcasm>


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