This mode uses the following syntax:
FSUtil FSInfo [drives] [drivetype Volume] [volumeinfo Volume]
[ntfsinfo Volume] [statistics Volume]
The following list describes each of the command line arguments.
drives Displays the current list of active drives on the system.
drivetype Volume Displays the drive information for the specified volume. The output is a
generic term for the drive type such as Fixed Drive or CD-ROM Drive.
Understanding Sparse Files
It??™s possible for a file to contain some data in addition to large ranges of zeros (or null data). A cache file
could fall into this category. You might allocate 1 MB for the cache, but the cache file could contain only
a little data; the rest of the file contains zeros. The part of the file that contains zeros wastes disk space.
There??™s no reason to allocate an entire 1 MB storage location for a file that contains 10 KB of data. The
term for such a file is sparse. Generally, you want to manage sparse files so they use the minimum space
necessary, yet continue to provide full functionality to the application that creates the sparse file.
The most common Windows application that uses sparse files is the indexing service.
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