FAT32: Attributes of the Root Directory

[mark3094]

Hi,

I'm working with FAT32, and I can see that it's simple to get attributes for most files; Just load the file's parent directory, and look at the corresponding directory entry.
Is there a way to get attributes, such as creation time, modified time, etc for the root directory? As it does not have a parent directory, I'm not sure how to get these details beyond what is in the BPB, which doesn't have time stamps.
I've had a look through Microsoft's FAT32 File System Specification, but can't find anything there.

Could I safely assume that any time stamps could be zero? Is there any way of determining the size of the root directory, other than following the cluster-chain, and counting the clusters?


Thanks

[alexfru]

From the official documentation:

For FAT32, the root directory can be of variable size and is a cluster chain, just like any other directory is. The first cluster of the root directory on a FAT32 volume is stored in BPB_RootClus. Unlike other directories, the root directory itself on any FAT type does not have any date or time stamps, does not have a file name (other than the implied file name “\”), and does not contain “.” and “..” files as the first two directory entries in the directory.

So, no date/time, no attributes, no size.

[mark3094]

I missed that line in the official docs.
Thanks for your response, I appreciate it.