Differnce in FAT32 & NTFS partition

NTDEV
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After every reboot,

1)There is change in NTFS partition
2) FAT32 partition doesn’t have any change before and after reboot the machine.

I have tried following,

  1. NTFS partition: write the content of the drive to one file in binary format before reboot and after reboot, compare the both file , it is not identical.

  2. FAT32 partition: write the content of the drive to the file before reboot and after reboot, compare the two file , it is identical.

I want to know what is the differnce in NTFS partition, is it re-organizing the data or de-framenting the data or is there any change in file system ?

any help is appreciated.

Regards
Sharan

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It *could* be NTFS recovery mechnism,

you can find more on it at

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781134(WS.10).aspx

check for Disk Recovery Operations

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> I want to know what is the differnce in NTFS partition, is it re-organizing the data or de-framenting the

data or is there any change in file system ?

First of all, it looks like from Vista up some defragmenting process is always here, constantly running in a background.

Second, NTFS has log-based recovery, and modern NTFS also has TxF and USN journal.

These things will cause any mount to do some writes.

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