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kolosus

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Fatx Limitations? Directory Size Etc.
« on: February 21, 2011, 07:40:00 PM »
Found the answer to my question. Figured I'd post the answer here in case someone else wonders about the limitations.

The Xbox built-in harddrive is formatted in FATX (File Allocation Table for Xbox) which has a 4GB (4096 Megabyte) file size limitation, and only supports file/folder names up to 42 characters, a maximum of 255 in total file structure character depth and a maximum number of 4096 files/folders in a single subfolder, plus in the root of each partition, the maximum number of files/folders is 256. FATX also does not support all standard ASCII characters in file/folder names (for example < > = ? : ; " * + , / \|ยค &).

I got that from wikipedia.
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