the answer is yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
and in the writeup under Fragmentation:
The FAT file system does not contain mechanisms which prevent newly
written files from becoming scattered across the partition.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:32 PM, pradeep singh
wrote:
>
Hello All,
Okay, I may be embarrassing myself here but still i ll dare to ask.
Does FAT16/FAT32 implementation in linux(i.e VFAT) suffer from the
same fragmentation issues, faced by a standard FAT* filesystem on a
Windows Box?
Thanks,
--Pradeep
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