File segmenting method and device for FAT file system
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- VIMICRO CORP
- Publication Date
- 2006-05-24
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
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technical field
[0001] The invention relates to the field of computer principles, in particular to a method for file division in a FAT file system and a device using the method. Background technique
[0002] The file storage principle of the FAT file system is that when a part of the disk space is formatted as a FAT file system, the FAT file system will plan this partition as an entire allocatable area to facilitate data storage.
[0003] FAT is a file system launched by Microsoft with high compatibility. It is still widely used in personal computers, especially mobile storage devices. FAT is simply composed of 5 parts, namely MBR, DBR, FAT, directory area, and data area. Among them, there is no reserved sector after the boot sector (DBR), followed by the FAT table. The FAT table is used to record the cluster chain structure of the disk data area. FAT divides the disk space into units of a certain number of sectors, and such units are called clusters. Normally, the princi...