From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Ritchie Babaylan <Ritchie.Babaylan@bitmicro.com>,
"fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Run FIO on a Windows Partition
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:05:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E40624.7040404@cran.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E3EF6E.5050307@kernel.dk>
On 8/7/2014 3:28 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 08/03/2014 06:12 PM, Ritchie Babaylan wrote:
>> I am just curios if FIO can test a Windows partition, say F: as the assigned drive letter.
>> What would be the correct syntax do I need to put on a "filename" parameter?
>> Do I need to use the "directory" parameter instead?
Specifying F: (or F:\) would test the filesystem, not the partition. I'm
not aware of any way to easily test the area of disk on which the
partition resides - you'd need to test the disk \\.\PhysicalDriveX and
seek to the starting sector. However, Windows prevents writes to areas
of a disk which contains filesystems, so you would only be able to read
and not write.
--
Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-07 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-04 0:12 Run FIO on a Windows Partition Ritchie Babaylan
2014-08-07 21:28 ` Jens Axboe
2014-08-07 23:05 ` Bruce Cran [this message]
2014-08-12 3:52 ` Ritchie Babaylan
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