JSI Tip 9225. What is the maximum file size, volume size, clusters per volume, and number of files per volume for the FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS file systems?

    Maximum File Size

    2³² - 1 bytes

    2³² - 1 bytes

    2⁶⁴ bytes - 1 KB (Theoretical)    2⁴⁴ bytes - 64 KB (Implementation)

    Maximum Volume Size

    4 GB

    32 GB

    2⁶⁴ allocation units (Theoretical)    2³² allocation units (Implementation)    

    Clusters per Volume

    65,535 Max.    

    65,527 - 4,177,918    

    2⁶⁴ (Theoretical)    2³² (Implementation)

    Maximum Files per Volume    

    2¹⁶

    2²² (~4 million)

    2³² - 1