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Overview

This is version 0.4 of the NTFS Documentation and is available as part of the Linux-NTFS Project

This is technical documentation. For simple answers to common questions, try reading the NTFS FAQ.

NTFS is the filesystem of Windows NT, 2000 and XP. It supports almost all POSIX features, all HFS features, and all HPFS features.

• It can deal with large capacity (up to 2⁴⁶ GB) storage units.
• It has built-in data compression.
• It uses log file for transactions.
• Byte order: everything is little-endian on-disk

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Questions

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Thanks,
    Richard Russon