Re: FAT32 or NTFS?

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From: Bob (spam_at_spam.com)
Date: 05/08/04 

Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 18:22:46 GMT

On Sat, 8 May 2004 12:11:09 -0400, Toshi1873 <toshi1873@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>FAT32 has *no* redundancy
>of the directory information about the disk.

I thought FAT filesystems kept two copies of the directory and the
file allocation table. But then maybe that was FAT16. 

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