Where’s my disk space?

re: Where’s my disk space?

Drewfus — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:51:39 GMT

@Larry Moran: I'll have a look at that prog, thanks. I posted my command wish list to the Win8 Dev Preview forum. social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../5891df3c-5060-4cb6-8c80-c4dd11c9df35 Drive space tool is #35.

re: Where’s my disk space?

Larry Moran — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:36:29 GMT

Drewfus, have you tried using FolderSizes (www.keymetricsoft.com) for this task? It does a much better job at analyzing file systems and producing useful disk space allocation reports.

re: Where’s my disk space?

Miro — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:05:44 GMT

Hi all, for those people wondering about current free disk space, ntdebugging blog had 2 nice articles regarding NTFS and reported free space, you may find it helpful:

blogs.msdn.com/.../ntfs-misreports-free-space.aspx

blogs.msdn.com/.../ntfs-misreporting-free-space-part-2.aspx

re: Where’s my disk space?

Robert Mitchell [MSFT] — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:05:40 GMT

NOTE: The best way to know your real free space is to look at the properties of the drive. Trust the pie chart. The reason is that it doesn't rely on adding misleading file sizes together. This method instead queries the file $BITMAP to determine the amount of in use clusters.

re: Where’s my disk space?

Drewfus — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:39:41 GMT

Given the examples in this post and the fact that Explorer incorrectly counts hardlinked files as used space when making its calculations of freespace, there is a case for removing Explorer's ability to display free space entirely. Why is better that Explorer displays misleading numbers that nothing at all?

Instead, would it be preferable for Explorer to launch a secondary application - with execution level 'requireAdministrator' - that does understand shadow copies and hardlinks and can correctly display freespace?

Explorer is really is a FAT/FAT32 oriented app still being used today in the NTFS era for historical and familiarity reasons. Time for a new shell?

re: Where’s my disk space?

James Burrage — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:46:51 GMT

Explorer only shows you the what you have permissions to see, not what the system has permissions to. Running chkdsk without any switches should also show you the true disk space usage.

re: Where’s my disk space?

Craig — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:17:39 GMT

Why was the design decision made to exclude shadow copies from Explorer's free disk space value? Do any other Windows components do the same thing?

Besides diskmgmt.msc, how else can you get a "true" free space value - command-line, WMI, Vbscript, PowerShell?