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While storage devices usually have their size expressed in powers of 10 (for instance a 1 TB Solid State Drive will contain at least 1,000,000,000,000 (10 12, 1000 4) bytes), filesystem limits are invariably powers of 2, so usually expressed with IEC prefixes. For instance, a 1 TiB limit means 2 40, 1024 4 bytes. Approximations (rounding down ...
The original File Allocation Table (FAT) file system, used by Standalone Disk BASIC-80, had a 6.3 file name, with a maximum of 6 bytes in the name and a maximum of 3 bytes in the extension. The FAT12 and FAT16 file systems in IBM PC DOS / MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 95 used the same 8.3 convention as the CP/M file system.
Long filename (LFN) support is Microsoft's backward-compatible extension of the 8.3 filename (short filename) naming scheme used in MS-DOS.Long filenames can be more descriptive, including longer filename extensions such as .jpeg, .tiff, and .html that are common on other operating systems, rather than specialized shortened names such as .jpg, .tif, or .htm.
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Limits; Max file size: 4,294,967,295 bytes (4 GB − 1) File size granularity: 1 byte: Max no. of files: 65,536 for 32 KB clusters: Max filename length: 8.3 filename with OEM characters, 255 UCS-2 characters [nb 1] when using LFN: Max directory depth: 32 levels or 66 characters (with CDS), 60 levels or more (without CDS) Features; Dates recorded
But this leads to ambiguity in the article because individual authors simply talk about whatever aspect of a filename suits them especially e.g. in talk of length limits. Notice for example the talk of the length limit in FAT16 as being "11" because there is an 8 character base and 3 character extension.
A filename extension is typically delimited from the rest of the filename with a full stop (period), but in some systems [1] it is separated with spaces. Some file systems implement filename extensions as a feature of the file system itself and may limit the length and format of the extension, while others treat filename extensions as part of ...
VFAT, a variant of FAT with an extended directory format, was introduced in Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5. It allowed mixed-case Unicode long filenames (LFNs) in addition to classic 8.3 names by using multiple 32-byte directory entry records for long filenames (in such a way that old 8.3 system software will only recognize one as the valid directory entry).