Fat32 and NTFS

[erickj92]

What is the Differece between Fat32 and NTFS?

 

[postaled]

one thing is I think the cluster size (is it called a file allocation unit in windows?) they are smaller on an NTFS partition so... think of it like this, you make a call on your phone for 29 seconds, if it were fat32 you would be billed a minute, and if it were NTFS it would be more like 30 seconds, less wasted space on your disk. Not sure if what I am saying is correct but I believe it is one of the differences. ALSO directory/file permissions are more... secure? on NTFS, only problem is if you make it so only one user cna access the data, you basically are screwed if you lose that account.

may help, may not

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: erickj92
What is the Differece between Fat32 and NTFS?

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[erickj92]

Thanks

 

[NetWareHead]

Originally posted by: postaled
ALSO directory/file permissions are more... secure? on NTFS, only problem is if you make it so only one user cna access the data, you basically are screwed if you lose that account.

Not exactly true. You may be locked out, but in this circumstance, the administrator can always take ownership of the folder and "unlock" it.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: NetWareHead

Originally posted by: postaled
ALSO directory/file permissions are more... secure? on NTFS, only problem is if you make it so only one user cna access the data, you basically are screwed if you lose that account.

Not exactly true. You may be locked out, but in this circumstance, the administrator can always take ownership of the folder and "unlock" it.

Someone may have confused this with NTFS encryption. If you have encrypted files, and you lose or corrupt the encryption certificate (the 'key' you need to decrypt the files), you are screwed.

 

[NetWareHead]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: NetWareHead

Originally posted by: postaled
ALSO directory/file permissions are more... secure? on NTFS, only problem is if you make it so only one user cna access the data, you basically are screwed if you lose that account.

Not exactly true. You may be locked out, but in this circumstance, the administrator can always take ownership of the folder and "unlock" it.

Someone may have confused this with NTFS encryption. If you have encrypted files, and you lose or corrupt the encryption certificate (the 'key' you need to decrypt the files), you are screwed.

True...NTFS offers an encryption recovery agent...so if the employee holding the key quits or the key is lost, the admin (acting as the recovery agent) can still open the files.

 

[lyssword]

One thing I know is that ntfs allows single files larger than 4 gb to be stored on hard drive.

 

[Mark R]

NTFS has 'streams' - this allows data to be stored in a 'secondary' part of the file, away from the main data. This is similar to how Apple files have two 'forks'.

This is how, if you bring up the 'properties' page for a file in Windows explorer, you can add loads of information and comments to any file - even a text file. All the comments are stored in a seperate stream, and will be ignored unless a program specifically looks for them.