FAT short for File Allocation Table is the name of a computer file system architecture and a family of industry standard file systems utilizing it.
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FAT16 File System
I'm building a file system that resembles FAT.
It has the following setup:
| MBR | FAT Area | Data Area |
So if given the sector_size (the size of a sector in bytes), cluster_size(the size of the cluster in sectors), and disk_size (the size of…
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16 bit Assembly not printing character
I've got a basic bootloader that should read the root sectors from a FAT12 formatted Floppy into the memory. (that part works) but after implementing that it stopped writing characters to the screen. Last time it did this was because I forgot to POP…
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Do I need FAT on both ends of a USB link?
I have a product consisting of two boxes, both running an RTOS (not picked yet, say FreeRTOS):
Box A will have:
an SD card and a FAT stack
an "external" USB device port with MSD to allow PC access to the SD card
"internal" USB device port to Box B…
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How to recover deleted file from FAT image?
I would like to know to recover deleted file from FAT. I created fat.img as below.
cd /tmp
dd if=/dev/zero of=fat.img bs=1024 count=100
mkfs.msdos fat.img
mkdir -p /tmp/fs
sudo mount -t msdos fat.img /tmp/fs -o umask=000,loop
Now i am creating file…
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Embedded logging application program design suggestions
Can anybody suggest ideas on how to solve this design problem:
I have an embedded system that generates events (off all sorts, lets just abstract events for the sake of this, they are a data structure that can be serialised).
These events are…
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Size of a file in the FAT system
I know that in recent file systems as EXT the i-node contains the actual size of the file. So if I want to know the size of a file I just need to read the meta-data.
How is this done in the FAT system (since there aren't i-nodes)? Do the OS need to…
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compare 2 char arrays in c
I've the following char arrays:
filename[256] = "one.txt";
shortname[11] = "ONE TXT";
what is the best way to compare these two arrays in c?
The first 8 characters of short name must fit to the characters before the . in filename.
I my case…
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About licence of fat free framwork
https://fatfreeframework.com/3.6/development#FairLicensing
If the terms and conditions of this license are too restrictive for your use,
alternative licensing is available for a very reasonable fee.
what is the name of alternative licence? how much…
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