File Allocation Table

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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the part of a floppy disk or hard disk where information is stored about the location of each piece of information on the disk (and about the location of unusable areas of the disk)

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Unknown—authoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: File Allocation Tables
possessive: File Allocation Table's
pluralpossessive: File Allocation Tables'

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