Understand Windows 2003 Server disk volumes with NTFSInfo
By Scott Lowe, Special to ZDNet Asia
Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:03 AM
Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:03 AM
What's going on with your Windows Server 2003's NTFS volumes? Scott Lowe talks about Sysinternals' NTFSInfo utility, which can provide you with nearly everything you'd want to know about each and every one of your volumes.
How many of you are running something other than NTFS on your Windows Server 2003 servers? Probably not many--after all, in most cases, running a Windows server without NTFS doesn't make sense. But, how do you get granular information about your individual NTFS volumes, such as the number of sectors, cluster size, and other interesting NTFS information? Use Sysinternals' NTFSInfo utility, which you can download from Microsoft's Web site. (Sysinternals is now owned by Microsoft.)
Among other details, NTFSInfo provides you with the following information:
- The cluster-based location of the Master File Table
- The starting cluster of the mirror of the Master File Table
- The size of the Master File Table
- The size of the volume in megabytes
- The total number of sectors and clusters
- The free space available
- The number of bytes per sector and cluster
After installing NTFSInfo, this is the output from one of the disks in my machine:
C:\>ntfsinfo f:
NTFS Information Dump V1.01
Copyright © 1997 Mark Russinovich
http://www.sysinternals.comVolume Size
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Volume size: 16378 MB
Total sectors: 33543656
Total clusters: 4192957
Free clusters: 3848814
Free space: 15034 MB (91% of drive)Allocation Size
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Bytes per sector: 512
Bytes per cluster: 4096
Bytes per MFT record: 1024
Clusters per MFT record: 0MFT Information
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MFT size: 15 MB (0% of drive)
MFT start cluster: 786432
MFT zone clusters: 786464—1310560
MFT zone size: 2047 MB (12% of drive)
MFT mirror start: 2096478
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