{"id":4361,"date":"2013-01-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/01\/06\/powertip-use-powershell-3-0-to-find-size-of-volumes-and-partitions\/"},"modified":"2013-01-06T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-3-0-to-find-size-of-volumes-and-partitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-3-0-to-find-size-of-volumes-and-partitions\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell 3.0 to Find Size of Volumes and Partitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 on Windows&nbsp;8 and Windows Server&nbsp;2012 to find the size of disks, partitions, and volumes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I find disk space information for disks, partitions, and volumes on Windows&nbsp;8 or Windows Server&nbsp;2012?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the <strong>Get-Disk<\/strong>, <strong>Get-Partition<\/strong>, and <strong>Get-Volume<\/strong> functions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\"><strong>Note<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This command requires Admin rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">An example is shown here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">15:23 C:\\&gt; Get-Disk | Get-Partition | Get-Volume<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">&nbsp;DriveLetter&nbsp; FileSystemLabel FileSystem&nbsp; DriveType&nbsp;&nbsp; HealthStatus SizeRemaining&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Size<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;-<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">E&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FAT32&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Removable&nbsp;&nbsp; Healthy&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.74 GB&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.74 GB<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">System R&#8230; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;NTFS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fixed &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Healthy&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 108.76 MB&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 350 MB<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">C&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NTFS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fixed &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Healthy&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 95.03 GB&nbsp;&nbsp; 148.71 GB<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 on Windows&nbsp;8 and Windows Server&nbsp;2012 to find the size of disks, partitions, and volumes. &nbsp;How can I find disk space information for disks, partitions, and volumes on Windows&nbsp;8 or Windows Server&nbsp;2012? &nbsp;Use the Get-Disk, Get-Partition, and Get-Volume functions. Note&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This command requires Admin rights. An example is shown here: 15:23 C:\\&gt; Get-Disk | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 on Windows&nbsp;8 and Windows Server&nbsp;2012 to find the size of disks, partitions, and volumes. &nbsp;How can I find disk space information for disks, partitions, and volumes on Windows&nbsp;8 or Windows Server&nbsp;2012? &nbsp;Use the Get-Disk, Get-Partition, and Get-Volume functions. Note&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This command requires Admin rights. An example is shown here: 15:23 C:\\&gt; Get-Disk | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}