NTFS Misreports Free Space?

NTFS Misreports Free Space? — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:53:28 GMT

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re: NTFS Misreports Free Space?

Vince — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:56:38 GMT

Are you kidding me?!??? These are the steps you have to take?? I'm sure the average user will have no problem "piping" the output of STREAMS.EXE to a text file.

Microsoft should be embarassed by this, and shouldn't be surprised why more consumers are moving to the MAC OS.

[Alternate named streams are common to many OS platforms and each platform handles these a little differently (see URL).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28filesystem%29

A common reason we have to examine named streams is because Mac clients can create large forked files on Windows shares and you need to keep track of their usage.

Windows does a great job of making forks & alternate named streams available to application developers on the various OS platforms, but IT professionals should understand how to see the effects of using this feature.

Regards, Dennis]

re: NTFS Misreports Free Space?

edgar — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:26:23 GMT

Thank you for this good article.

But this is only the beginning, for a nice transparent UI application.

Right ? :)

[That is left as an exercise for the reader. This MSDN article should help you get started. Or if you prefer .NET coding, check out this article.]

Interesting Links 7/09/2007

Matt Johnson's Technical Adventures — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:38:16 GMT

The list is a little longer today because of not posting last week. Enjoy! Microsoft Advanced Windows

re: NTFS Misreports Free Space?

David Walker — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:56:02 GMT

"High metadata usage will be the subject for part 2 of this blog."

Is that part coming any time soon?

re: NTFS Misreports Free Space?

Phylyp — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:14:01 GMT

I came across this article via a link from Raymond Chen's blog - a very nice coverage.

It is interesting to note that hard links are not synchronized - I need to go back and review my usage of hard links on my PCs to see if this might cause a problem...

re: NTFS Misreports Free Space?

Darrain Brown — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:18:35 GMT

> But this is only the beginning, for a nice transparent UI application

It's not free, but we use a software product called FolderSizes (http://www.foldersizes.com) to help us with this sort of problem. It seems to have much of this logic built into it, plus a nifty treemap view to boot. :-)

Why doesn't the file system have a function that tells you the number of files in a directory?

The Old New Thing — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:27:58 GMT

Because there is no need for it to keep track of that information.