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Small nitpick: >The size of this record in popular file systems can range from 256 bytes (Ext4) to 1024 bytes (NTFS). On 512 and 512e disks, where the NTFS re
by jaclaz 5y ago
Small nitpick:
>The size of this record in popular file systems can range from 256 bytes (Ext4) to 1024 bytes (NTFS).
On 512 and 512e disks, where the NTFS record is two sectors, in 4K "native" disks the NTFS record becomes 4K, i.e. e single sector.
- didgetmaster 5y agoGood catch. When I ran 'fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:' it reported the bytes per FRS as 1024, but then I realized my c: drive was an SSD which must have 512 byte block emulation on. The hard drive shows 4096 bytes per FRS. I forgot about this when writing the article. That makes the difference between my record size and NTFS's even greater (1/64 vs 1/16).
- jaclaz 5y agoAs a side note, for extremely small files, the actual file content is written directly the $MFT entry, the size limit is around 700 bytes for 1024 bytes $MFT records and around 3750 for 4096 bytes $MFT record. Some reference, JFYI: https://www.forensicfocus.com/forums/general/mft-resident-data/ https://www.forensicfocus.com/forums/general/mft-resident-da...