{"id":93183,"date":"2016-03-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=93183"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:31:42","slug":"20160322-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20160322-00\/?p=93183","title":{"rendered":"How can I find out how much disk space the WinSxS folder is really occupying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you ask Explorer or some other disk space utility for the size of the WinSxS folder, you&#8217;ll get an inflated value because WinSxS consists mostly of hard links into other parts of Windows, so it doesn&#8217;t really occupy space on its own, but na&iuml;ve disk space calculation algorithms don&#8217;t take hard links into account (in part because it&#8217;s not clear how one should account for them). <\/p>\n<p>The command to analyze the contents of the WinSxS directory is <\/p>\n<pre>\ndism \/Online \/Cleanup-Image \/AnalyzeComponentStore\n<\/pre>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=293367\">This Web page<\/a> explains how to interpret the results. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untangling the links.<\/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":[104],"class_list":["post-93183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Untangling the links.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93183","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=93183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93183\/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=93183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}