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Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better by vikingerik on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:39PM (#31841587)
> Or, to bring it back to hard drives: what's the max file size of a file stored on a FAT32 filesystem again?

That is not about hard drives, that is about the abstraction layer of FAT32, which uses a 32-bit quantity for size.

FAT32 could be used for a storage device that stores things based on powers-of-10 sizes. It's just an implementation detail if anything happens to do it with powers of 2 underneath.

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Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better by colanderman on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @05:47PM (#31842274)
> FAT32 could be used for a storage device that stores things based on powers-of-10 sizes

Not without wasting lots of space. FAT32 only allows sector sizes of 512, 1024, 2048, or 4096 bytes.

[1] https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cop4610t/assignments/project3/spec/f...

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