JasonC Posted January 13, 2017 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
0 Spider99 Posted January 13, 2017 Posted January 13, 2017 no thin provisioning will not thick will allocate all space on creation Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted January 13, 2017 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
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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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