Monday, December 12, 2016

Windows file systems (NTFS)


NTFS:

NTFS (New Technology File System) was introduced in Windows NT and is major file system for Windows at present. This is a default file system for disk partitions and the only file system that is supported for disk partitions over 32GB. The file system is quite extensible supporting many file properties, including access controlencryption etc. Each file on NTFS is stored as file descriptor in a Master File Table and file content. Master file table contains all information about the file: size, allocation, name etc. The first and the last sectors of the file system contain file system settings (boot record or superblock). This file system uses 48and 64 bit values to reference files, thus supporting quite large disk storages.

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