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22/01/2009 10:14 am
I just discovered that if you have a MFT record with resident data and that file that the record describes is changed (made shorter) then the ASCII that was there before is still there. Only the size of the record changes in the MFT record. Can anyone tell me if this is the same outside the MFT?
22/01/2009 4:50 pm
For a simple text file, where no EOF marker is placed within the file, it will appear the same. The MFT record contains the details as to how long the file is, the rest of the cluster (cluster slack) will contain the rest of the file.