Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:46:44 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: zoneinfo
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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, A. Sinan Unur wrote:

> except when using fat32, the fat based file systems allocate disk space 
> not in bytes, but in 'allocation units' you can have a max of 65536 
> allocation units per drive,

FAT32 also allocates disk space in clusters (aka allocation units), only 
it isn't limited to 16 bits and therefore can have more than 64K 
clusters.  So FAT32 volumes have smaller clusters and thus waste less 
slack space.