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Recently, Microsoft Support released an update for Windows Server 2003 SP2 that allows Chkdsk.exe tool compact the NTFS security descriptor stream (a.k.a. $secure file). Depending on the file system usage, this descriptor can consume a lot of disk space.
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An observant Windows Vista user noticed a registry named NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem and asked us what this means. Last Access Time is a file attribute that’s updated when a file is
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Here's an overdue transcript of our NTFS beta chat held in July. NTFS chat transcript --Jill
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Chat Topic: Join the NTFS file system team to ask questions about NTFS in Windows Vista Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 Wendy [MSFT] (Moderator): Welcome to today’s chat with the NTFS Team. We will try to answer as many questions as we can today. Participants
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A customer recently asked about how to migrate NTFS quotas to FSRM quotas. Georgi Matev, the program manager for FSRM, responds: If NTFS-based quotas were used for user home directories, the migration is pretty straightforward. First, the customer needs
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A customer recently asked whether he can use NTFS compression on volumes or folders where replicated files are stored. The answer is yes, you can compress replicated content using NTFS compression, but we recommend against using NTFS compression on the
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