Sa said:
What is the mft thing you see in the rep[ort when you analyze a volume? What
happens if it reaches 100 percent?
Hello!
The MFT (Master File Table) is the equivalent of the File Allocation Table
in the FAT file system. This is the part of the file system that contains
information about the files and directories stored on the disk. The MFT is
nothing but a file itself and is actually a relational database containing
files as records and their attributes as the columns in the database.
When a partition is formatted as NTFS, space is allocated for the MFT
(called the MFT Zone) and some 'metadata files' (which we'll take a quick
look at shortly). The MFT Zone is by default allocated 12.5% of the disk
space on the volume. This is to prevent fragmentation of the MFT, which can
cause file retrievals to become slow as well as other errors if not
rectified. The MFT zone is never used to store data unless the rest of the
disk becomes full. This happens in two scenarios-One, when there are a large
number of small files, in which case the MFT fills up the zone by having to
store each file entry, or two, when there are a very huge files that fills
up the unreserved space quickly.
Further:-
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prkc_fil_xhpo.asp
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