Warp wrote:
>   "How much NTFS bookkeeping data is required (which the system puts inside
> the MFT zone) if you have 750000 small files?"

Oh. MFT records are 1K, I think.

The "MFT zone" is different. That's an area of the disk that's right after 
the main block of MFT that Windows tries not to put files into. It's there 
because you can't defrag the MFT, so as the MFT grows, it's best to have 
space right after it to grow into. However, if you *do* fill up the disk (or 
use a defragger that moves files into there, d'oh!) you can use that space. 
It'll just get allocated last of all.

If you look at the MyDefrag, one of the defrag options is to move files out 
of that space.

By default, it starts at 12.5% of the disk, and you can half that or double 
that when you format the drive, depending on your anticipated needs.

>   Or if we ask the same thing a bit differently: "How many files can you
> have in an NTFS partition before a 1MB MTF zone gets full?"

 From defrag -v -a:

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
     Total MFT size                      = 264 MB
     MFT record count                    = 256,999
     Percent MFT in use                  = 95
     Total MFT fragments                 = 3

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