> file space is allocated to files by starting
> at the beginning of the drive, and looking up it for
> available space.
This would be a function of the file system, not the operating system. AFAIK,
both FAT and NTFS will look for enough space to store the entire file
contiguously. NTFS will store small files (what the definition of "small"
actually is, I don't know) entirely within the MFT. Large files, as I
understand it, have their first chunk in the MFT and the rest in the
unallocated space on the partition.
In short, it just isn't this simple. And that's complicated by the fact that MS
has not publicly released the specs for NTFS, though it did for FAT32.
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