{"id":7273,"date":"2012-06-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/06\/27\/how-did-my-hard-drive-turn-into-a-tardis\/"},"modified":"2012-06-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:00:00","slug":"how-did-my-hard-drive-turn-into-a-tardis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120627-00\/?p=7273","title":{"rendered":"How did my hard drive turn into a TARDIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A customer observed that the entry for a network drive looked liked this in My Computer, well, except that there was a network drive icon instead of ASCII art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
O<\/u><\/td>\nPublic (\\\\server) (S:)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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3.81TB free of 2.5GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

How is it possible for a 2.5GB<\/a> drive to have 3.81TB free?\n While there have certainly been examples of Explorer showing confusing values<\/a> the reason for the strange results was, at least this time, not Explorer’s fault.<\/p>\n

This particular network drive actually reported (via Get­Disk­Free­Space­Ex<\/code>) that it had more free space than drive space. Explorer is dutifully reporting the information it was given, because it doesn’t try to second-guess the file system<\/a>. If a network drive wants to report that it is a TARDIS, then it’s a TARDIS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A customer observed that the entry for a network drive looked liked this in My Computer, well, except that there was a network drive icon instead of ASCII art. O Public (\\\\server) (S:)     3.81TB free of 2.5GB How is it possible for a 2.5GB drive to have 3.81TB free? While there have certainly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-7273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

A customer observed that the entry for a network drive looked liked this in My Computer, well, except that there was a network drive icon instead of ASCII art. O Public (\\\\server) (S:)     3.81TB free of 2.5GB How is it possible for a 2.5GB drive to have 3.81TB free? While there have certainly […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}