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4.2.3. Flags
Table 2.6. File Flags
 Flag Description 0x0001

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4. Attribute - $FILE_NAME (0x30)
4.1. Overview
This Attribute stores the name of the file attribute all is always resident.
As defined in $AttrDef, this attribute has a minimum size of 68 bytes and a maximum of 578 bytes. This equates to be a maximum filename length of 255 Unicode characters.

4.2. Layout of the Attribute (Residen...

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Table 2.4. Layout of the $ATTRIBUTE_LIST (0x20) attribute
 Offset Size Description...

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Maximum Number of Versions
Maximum allowed versions for file. Zero means that version numbering is disabled.

Version Number
This is file's version (if any). It will be zero if Maximum Number of Versions is zero.

Class Id
Class Id from bidirectional Class Id index.

Owner Id
Owner Id of the user owning the file. This Id is a key in the $O and $...

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2.2. Layout of the Attribute (Resident)

Table 2.2. Layout of the $STANDARD_INFORMATION (0x10) attribute
Offset
 Size

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Chapter 2 NTFS Attributes
1. Overview
Each MFT FILE Record is built up from Attributes. The list of possible Attributes is defined in $AttrDef.

Table 2.1 Standard NTFS Attributes

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3. Volume Layout
3.1. Overview
A freshly formatted NTFS volume will look like:

Table 1.4. Layout of a freshly formatted NTFS volume


BOOTMFT

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2. Tables Legend
2.1. Overview
The tables in this documentation aren''t completely consistent. Below is a key to the tables showing how various fields are represented?

2.2. Footnotes
Any table fields that have footnote marks, e.g. (a), (e), will have a fuller description immediately below the table.

2.3. Size Fields
In NTFS not all fields are of a fixed...

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Chapter 1 Prologue

1. About the NTFS Documentation

1.1. Overview

NTFS is the file system of Windows NT, 2000 and XP. It supports almost all POSIX features, all HFS features, and all HPFS features.
    It can deal with large capacity (up to 2 46 GB) storage units.
    It has built-in ...

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3. ON BALANCE
Leaving matters of access control and dual use aside, as partition sizes grow, the case for NTFS gets stronger. Microsoft definitely recommends NTFS for partitions larger than 32 GB -- to the extent that Windows XP will not format a FAT partition above that size. However, with smaller sizes, FAT is likely to be more efficient -- certainly below 4 GB, and probably below 8 GB. ...