2024年9月5日 · The NTFS file system contains a file called the master file table, or MFT. There is at least one entry in the MFT for every file on an NTFS file system volume, including the MFT itself.

Each file on an NTFS volume is represented by a record in a special file called the master file table (MFT). NTFS reserves the first 16 records of the table for special information. The first record of this table describes the master file table itself, followed by a MFT mirror record.

2022年9月14日 · $Mft is the NTFS "Master File Table" – it's the file which holds all information about what files you have and where they are physically. You seem to have about 8 million files, so assuming a ~1 kB metadata entry per file, an 8 GB $Mft is entirely reasonable.

2022年3月21日 · The Master File Table (MFT) is the primary source of metadata in NTFS. It contains or indirectly references everything about a file: its timestamps, size in bytes, attributes (such as permissions), parent directory, and contents.

2025年1月15日 · Because utilities that defragment NTFS volumes cannot move MFT entries, and because excessive fragmentation of the MFT can impact performance, NTFS reserves space for the MFT in an effort to keep the MFT as contiguous as possible as it grows.

2023年2月14日 · The structure of the Master File Table (MFT) in the NTFS file system is complex and consists of multiple records, each of which represents a file or directory on the NTFS volume. Each MFT record is 1024 bytes, making the MFT very simple to parse.

2024年10月13日 · The Master File Table (MFT) is a critical component of the New Technology File System (NTFS), which is widely used in Windows operating systems. Understanding the role of the MFT is essential for anyone interested in file …

2022年12月22日 · Do you know what MFT is? It is the abbreviation of the Master File Table, which is the core of the NTFS file system. This post provides details for you.

2017年7月18日 · How to extract data from MFT? You can use Mft2Csv: is a powerful tool developed by Joakim Schicht with the ability to read $MFT from a variety of sources, including live system acquisition. This tool is for parsing, decoding and logging information from the Master File Table ($MFT) to a csv.

2025年3月16日 · The Master File Table (MFT), filename $MFT, is the main element of any NTFS partition. The MFT contains an entry for all existing files written on the partition. Deleted files that were once written on the partition may also still (temporally) have a record in the MFT.