JasonC 14 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I'm curious, does anyone know if scanning a thin-provisioned disk will cause it to actually allocate it's maximum reported space? i.e. might not want to fully scan(or scan at all) such a disk? Thanks! Ginoliggime 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Spider99 100 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 no thin provisioning will not thick will allocate all space on creation Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Christopher (Drashna) 633 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 That depends on the software/drive. But specifically, StableBit Scanner is runing a read only pass of the drive. This should return the proper "succeed/fail" information, but since no data is being written, no data is being allocated and should remain the same size. Worst case, create a very small dynamically expanding disk in Disk Management, attach it, and then scan it. It should remain the same size. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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I'm curious, does anyone know if scanning a thin-provisioned disk will cause it to actually allocate it's maximum reported space?
i.e. might not want to fully scan(or scan at all) such a disk?
Thanks!
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