Difference between NTFS and FAT file Systems

Characteristics	NTFS	FAT
Stands For	New Technology File System	File Allocation Table.
Partition Size	NTFS support size of files and volumes, up to 2^64 bytes (16 Exabyte’s or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes).	FAT partitions are limited in size to a maximum of 4 Gigabytes (GB) under Windows NT and 2 GB in MS-DOS.
Naming Conventions	File and directory names can be up to 255 characters long, including any extensions.	It follows 8.3 naming convention. The name of a file or directory can be up to eight characters long, then a period (.) separator, and up to a three character extension.
Suitable Volume size	It is not recommended to use NTFS on a volume that is smaller than approximately 400 MB, because of the amount of space overhead involved in NTFS. This space overhead is in the form of NTFS system files that typically use at least 4 MB of drive space on a 100 MB partition.	FAT file system should not be used in drives or partitions of over 200 MB. This is because as the size of the

Difference Between Linux and Windows

Parameter	Windows	Linux
Introduction	It is an Operating System developed by Microsoft and  named Windows on November 20, 1985 as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS	Linux is a Unix Like Operating System introduced by Linus Torvalds and was first released on 5 October 1991.
License Type	Proprietary Commercial Software and must have to be Purchased before using Windows OS.	Except Red Hat all versions are free and are distributed under GNU GPL License.
File System Supported	NTFS,FAT,FAT 32, ISO 9660, UDF,	Ext,Ext2, Ext3, Ext3, ReiserFS, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS, NTFS, JFS, XFS, Minux and GmailFS
Versions	Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 etc.	Red Hat, Suse Linux, Debian, Knoppix, Ubuntu etc.