Check partition or volume properties


Check partition or volume properties
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You can check the properties of a partition or volume by right-clicking a partition or volume and selecting Properties from the context menu. The Properties window comes up. The categories for the properties of a volume differ, depending on the volume type.

The screen that follows shows the Properties window for a Mirrored Concatenated volume.

Figure: Volume Properties

The categories for the Mirrored Concatenated volume shown in the sample screen are as described in the following table:

Table: Volume Properties Categories

Category	Description
Name	The volume name is shown at the top of the window.
Layout	Indicates the volume layout type. The layout categories are concatenated, striped, RAID-5, mirrored, and mirrored striped.
Status	Status of the volume.
Copies	Number of mirrors the volume has.
Columns	Number of columns. It is two or more for striped volumes.
Log	Whether there is a DRL or RAID-5 log or FastResync
Group name	Basic or dynamic disk group the volume is associated with.
Device path	The path to the device.
Size	Size of the volume in Sectors, KB, MB, GB, TB.
Comment	User-defined comment.
File system type	Fields are FAT, FAT 32, NTFS, ReFS.
File system label	Operating system file system label.
File system capacity	Size of file system.
File system free space	Amount of free space available in file system.
Aligned	Whether the volume is track aligned or not.
Sitetype	Indicates whether thevolume is Siteless, Site Confined, or Site Separated.
Attributes	Check box to enable volume as read only.

Note:

Dynamic disks belonging to a Microsoft Disk Management disk group do not support volume comments.

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