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Which file system has 32 assigned to the address cluster of the allocation table?
The correct answer is B. FAT32. The name FAT32 encodes the key technical detail: its File Allocation Table uses 32-bit entries to store cluster addresses on disk.
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Which file system has 32 assigned to the address cluster of the allocation table?
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- AEXT4
- BFAT32
- CNTFS
- DFAT16
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The name FAT32 encodes the key technical detail: its File Allocation Table uses 32-bit entries to store cluster addresses on disk.
EXT4 is a Linux journaling file system that uses extents and inode-based allocation, not a File Allocation Table structure at all.
FAT32 (File Allocation Table 32) uses 32-bit values in each entry of its allocation table to address clusters, which is exactly what the question describes. The number in the file system name directly denotes the bit-width of the cluster address field in the table.
NTFS organizes data using a Master File Table (MFT) with B-tree indexes, not a FAT structure with a fixed bit-width cluster address.
FAT16 uses 16-bit cluster address entries in its allocation table, not 32-bit entries.
Concept tested: FAT32 file system 32-bit cluster addressing
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/backup-and-storage/fat-hpfs-and-ntfs-file-systems
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