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List Out The Steps in NTFS Machines

1. NTFS is the file system used by Windows NT to store and retrieve files on a hard disk. It offers improvements over FAT and HPFS in terms of performance, extendibility, and security. 2. FAT is a legacy file system that is simple, robust, and offers good performance, but cannot deliver the same performance, reliability, and scalability as modern file systems. 3. NTFS uses a b-tree directory scheme to track file clusters. File information is stored with each cluster rather than a governing table. NTFS supports very large files, access control lists, file compression, long file names, and data security on removable and fixed disks. When a disk is formatted

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List Out The Steps in NTFS Machines

1. NTFS is the file system used by Windows NT to store and retrieve files on a hard disk. It offers improvements over FAT and HPFS in terms of performance, extendibility, and security. 2. FAT is a legacy file system that is simple, robust, and offers good performance, but cannot deliver the same performance, reliability, and scalability as modern file systems. 3. NTFS uses a b-tree directory scheme to track file clusters. File information is stored with each cluster rather than a governing table. NTFS supports very large files, access control lists, file compression, long file names, and data security on removable and fixed disks. When a disk is formatted

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List out the steps in NTFS machines


A: NTFS (NT file system; sometimes New Technology File System) is the file system
that the Windows NT operating system uses for storing and retrieving files on a hard disk.
NTFS is the Windows NT equivalent of the Windows 95 file allocation table (FAT) and
the OS/2 High Performance File System (HPFS). However, NTFS offers a number of
improvements over FAT and HPFS in terms of performance, extendibility, and security.

2. Define FAT disks and its strategies.


A: A FAT file system is a specific type of computer file system architecture and a family
of industry-standard file systems utilizing it. The FAT file system is a legacy file system
which is simple and robust. It offers good performance even in very light-weight
implementations, but cannot deliver the same performance, reliability and scalability as
some modern file systems. It is, however, supported for compatibility reasons by nearly
all currently developed operating systems for personal computers and many home
computers, mobile devices and embedded systems, and thus is a well-suited format for
data exchange between computers and devices of almost any type and age from 1981
through the present.
3. Explain about NTFS System Files with detailed descriptions.
A: NTFS (NT file system; sometimes New Technology File System) is the file system
that the Windows NT operating system uses for storing and retrieving files on a hard disk.
NTFS is the Windows NT equivalent of the Windows 95 file allocation table (FAT) and
the OS/2 High Performance File System (HPFS). However, NTFS offers a number of
improv Notable features of NTFS include:

• Use of a b-tree directory scheme to keep track of file clusters


• Information about a file's clusters and other data is stored with each cluster, not
just a governing table (as FAT is)
• Support for very large files (up to 2 to the 64th power or approximately 16 billion
bytes in size)
• An access control list (ACL) that lets a server administrator control who can access
specific files
• Integrated file compression
• Support for names based on Unicode
• Support for long file names as well as "8 by 3" names
• Data security on both removable and fixed disksements over FAT and HPFS in
terms of performance, extendibility, and security.
How does it work:

When a hard disk is formatted (initialized), it is divided into partitions or major


divisions of the total physical hard disk space. Within each partition, the operating
system keeps track of all the files that are stored by that operating system. Each
file is actually stored on the hard disk in one or more clusters or disk spaces of a
predefined uniform size. Using NTFS, the sizes of clusters range from 512 bytes
to 64 kilobytes. Windows NT provides a recommended default cluster size for any
given drive size. For example, for a 4 GB (gigabyte) drive, the default cluster size
is 4 KB (kilobytes). Note that clusters are indivisible. Even the smallest file takes
up one cluster and a 4.1 KB file takes up two clusters (or 8 KB) on a 4 KB cluster
system.

The selection of the cluster size is a trade-off between efficient use of disk space
and the number of disk accesses required to access a file. In general, using NTFS,
the larger the hard disk the larger the default cluster size, since it's assumed that a
system user will prefer to increase performance (fewer disk accesses) at the
expense of some amount of space inefficiency.

When a file is created using NTFS, a record about the file is created in a special
file, the Master File Table (MFT). The record is used to locate a file's possibly
scattered clusters. NTFS tries to find contiguous storage space that will hold the
entire file (all of its clusters).

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