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Glossary of Data Communications Terms
Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.
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Term:
file allocation table (FAT)
Definition:
A FAT keeps track of file locations in a particular volume.
NetWare divides each volume into blocks. NetWare stores
files on the volume in these blocks. If the file consists
of one or more blocks, the file may be stored in blocks
that are not adjacent. The FAT keeps track of the block
numbers where different parts of the file are located. To
retrieve a file, NetWare searches through the FAT until it
finds the FAT entries and corresponding block numbers for
the requested file.
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