How can a file's size on disk be 0 bytes when there's data in it?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/1030800/...

Question links:
[Notepad++]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad%2B%...

Accepted answer links:
[The Four Stages of NTFS File Growth]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive...
[Just What Is 'Size on Disk'?]: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/maga...

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