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Figure 12-3 illustrates the relationship between the directory entry and the FAT.
Figure 12-3 A directory entry points to the first entry in a cluster chain (FAT 16)
In Figure 12-3, the directory entry for a file points to the 40th entry in the FAT table. The 40th entry points to the 41st, the 41st to the 46th; the 46th is not a pointer, as the entry contains a special end-of-cluster-chain marker. The means that for Figure 12-3, the 41st cluster is the final cluster allocated to the file.
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