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defragment an NTFS partition, you’ll see a small, immovable chunk

somewhere on the drive, often near the front; that’s the MFT (see Figure 9-

24).

Figure 9-24 The NTFS MFT appears in a defragmenter program as the

highlighted red blocks (although those are hard to see in black and white

printing!).

Security

NTFS views individual files and folders as objects and provides security for

those objects through a feature called the Access Control List (ACL). Future

chapters go into this in much more detail.

NOTE Microsoft has never released the exact workings of NTFS to the

public.

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