NTFS
Proper noun
Meaning
NTFS
(software, Windows) Initialism of New Technology File System (a proprietary file system developed for the Windows NT family of Microsoft Windows operating systems, starting with Windows NT 3.1 and continuing to the present day).
Coordinate terms: FAT, FAT32
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Additionally, NTFS has some ordering constraints for these attributes.
Commonly called NTFS 5.0 after the OS release.
All attributes of a given file may be displayed by using the nfi.exe ("NTFS File Sector Information Utility") that is freely distributed as part of the Microsoft "OEM Support Tools".
Collectively the volume descriptor set acts as a header for the data area, describing its content (similar to the BIOS parameter block used by FAT and NTFS formatted disks).
Commonly called NTFS 4.0 after the OS release.
Cygwin also recognises NTFS junction points and symbolic links and treats them as POSIX symbolic links, but it does not create them as their semantics are not fully POSIX-compliant.