The FAT file system was introduced in the past in the MSDOS system but is still used in current multimedia devices, Suppose a system FAT-32 (28 bits of address of disk blocks) and a disk block size of 32 kilobytes. 

a) Calculate the maximum size of a partition (we neglect the space reserved by the operating system on the partition). 

b) To speed up access to the FAT table, the system loads it in the main memory. If I create a 32 GB FAT partition, calculate the size of the occupied memory by the FAT.

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