Question regarding filesystems true or false?

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Hello all, though I'm familiar with stackoverflow , and loving it , i've actually got a couple of questions myself about something other then programming.

Here are my question Is it true that in FAT filesystems the maximum number of files per filesystem equals the number of entries in the FAT table. And is it also true that in indexed filesystems the maximum number of files per filesystem equals the number of indexblocks – 1.

I'm reading some stuff and am trying to get a good understanding of it.

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