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Fundamental
structure of NTFS is a volume
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Created
by the XP disk administrator utility
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Based
on a logical disk partition
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May
occupy a portions of a disk, an entire disk, or span across
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several
disks
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Striping,
RAID, redundancy, etc.
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All metadata,
such as information about the volume, is
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stored
in a regular file
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NTFS
uses clusters as the underlying unit of disk
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allocation
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A
cluster is a number of disk sectors that is a power of two
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Because
the cluster size is smaller than for the 16-bit FAT file
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system,
the amount of internal fragmentation is reduced
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