[shearerc]

Hi all,

Yesterday I formatted my non-system partition, D, in Win2K Command Prompt with this command:

format d: /fs:ntfs

Formatting went smoothly. Immediately after the format, I checked drive D's properties and was shocked to discover 51 megs of space have been taken up! 8)

How could that be? Drive D was empty after formatting, no Recycle Bin, no System Volume Information, nothing. (yes, I set Explorer to show all hidden & system files)



D partition is about 10 gigs in size and is healthy with NO bad sectors.

Is this normal behaviour? Thanks for your help.

[shearerc]

Big thanks for the quick reply.

Yeah, I'm mighty glad to finally make the switch to ntfs; it's been LONG due, I delayed and delayed for months, years lol. Now playing around with the File & Folder Permissions-it's cool!

Anyhow, do you have happen to know of any MS tech documents that explains why MFT can be so ugly big on NTFS partitions? I searched and searched.....found nothing of relevance

[duhmez]

the MFT can be 8% or more of the total space 50 MB is nothing. dont worry about it.

The zero byte thing is no theory either, for giggles i made a 100 MB ntfs prtition and filled it up that way. it as fun.

One lousy command line can make the billions of 0 byte size files.............

[jmmijo]

Quote:

Big thanks for the quick reply.

Yeah, I'm mighty glad to finally make the switch to ntfs; it's been LONG due, I delayed and delayed for months, years lol. Now playing around with the File & Folder Permissions-it's cool!

Anyhow, do you have happen to know of any MS tech documents that explains why MFT can be so ugly big on NTFS partitions? I searched and searched.....found nothing of relevance

I think this will help explain some of the basics of the MFT

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;174619

I would goto Microsoft's KB and select - All Microsoft Products - and then just use the keyword mft.

http://support.micro...t.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

[shearerc]

Thanks to everyone who has been helpful.

@jmmijo - that article is excellent, it explains the "weirdness", my gratitude to you.

I need to spend some time brushing up my search skills too....

[jmmijo]

Quote:

Thanks to everyone who has been helpful.

@jmmijo - that article is excellent, it explains the "weirdness", my gratitude to you.

I need to spend some time brushing up my search skills too....

You're welcome my young padawan, now search will you hmmmmmm