Re: The pendrives cannot be formatted with fat32, why?

Given that we're talking specifically about FAT, the destinction is
pretty artificial. All FAT formatted volumes have clusters, and the
layout of the FAT itself is determined strictly by the resulting number
of clusters (and with only an indirect relationship to the number and
size of the sectors). If you've laid out your device such that it has
fewer than 65525 clusters, you must use FAT16 (ignoring FAT12, for the
moment), if there are more clusters, you must use FAT32.

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