SD Card only fills halfway

Fri Feb 11 15:37:04 UTC 2005

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:18:00AM -0500, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> does? C'mon, some consistency, please! ;-)

FAT16 with vfat extensions has a limit of 512 entries in the root dir
(less if on a small filesystem like a floppy).  Each long filename takes
multiple dir entries, so it doesn't take many long file anmes to fill
the root dir.  If you use FAT32 with vfat however, you have no such
limit.

Lennart Sorensen
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