The smallest FAT32 partition

Question

I need to create a small partition image (several MB) with the FAT32 file system. I provided some conflicting information on the Internet about the minimum FAT32 partition size.

When I tried mkfs of the 5 MB partition as FAT32 on Linux, I get a warning because it is too small. Although, he writes something in it. (I'm not sure if this is true) And when I try to format a 5 MB partition as FAT32 with diskpart on Windows, it just fails.

How small can the FAT32 partition be?

thanks

Answer 1

FAT32 requires a partion of at least 33,548,800 bytes (32763 KB).