bnbg Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I recently resized a 10TB drive to 50TB, but Windows still shows it as being 10TB. System has been rebooted a few times but no change. Any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 UKA Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 You need to extend the disk in Windows Disk Management bnbg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bnbg Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 I get a cluster size error if I try that. How do I check the current cluster size in the GUI? Is the default 4kb? Am i stuck resizing it to 16TB then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 srcrist Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 EDIT: This was wrong. And old. bnbg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 You can only make a drive a maximum of 16TB with NTFS and Windows. If you need larger, you'll have to use ReFS or simply pool multiple 16TB drives using DrivePool. Incorrect. However, the default allocation unit size (NTFS cluster size) does limit the drive to 16TBs. The default (4kb) cluster size has a limit of 16TBs per volume. 8KB cluster limits you to 32TB 16KB cluster limits you to 64TB 32KB cluster limits you to 128TB 64KB cluster limits you to 256TB To get past 256TB per volume/partition, you MUST use ReFS. That said, the maximum size that StableBit cloudDrive supports is 1PB (1024TB). Anything larger than that, and the resource requirements start skyrocketing, IIRC. The problem is, there are only two ways to "fix" this issue, reformat the drive and use a larger cluster size, or just add more partitions. I get a cluster size error if I try that. How do I check the current cluster size in the GUI? Is the default 4kb? Am i stuck resizing it to 16TB then? If you run a disk check (CHKDSK), it will show this in the information. Otherwise, you have to do this via command line. Run "fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo x:", where "x:" is the drive in question. Look for the "Bytes per cluster". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 srcrist Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Ah, sorry. I didn't realize that could be changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Ah, sorry. I didn't realize that could be changed. Not a problem. This is one of those "kind of hidden" limitations. It's documented, but not *inside* of the OS itself. You ahve to look at MSDN/Technet to find this information. Or tinker and figure it out yourself. That said, changing this requires formatting (or partitioning tools). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mikeyo Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 This hidden issue kind of caught me off guard. Ive already transfered almost 10TB of data to gdrive, to just find out my 10TB drive is pretty much max Windows can see (with default drive creation settings Ive used). Is there a way to "migrate" already uploaded data, to a new drive I just created (at gdrive also ofcourse), thats ReFS and 100TB in size, without the need of reuploading it all again? Or any other solution to this issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 New drive. Though, you can extend the drive in CloudDrive, and then add additional partitions to the drive, and pool those together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TonyD Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Christopher (Drashna) said: New drive. Though, you can extend the drive in CloudDrive, and then add additional partitions to the drive, and pool those together. When do you set the cluster size? When you create the cloud drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 You set the cluster size when you format the drive. It's the "allocation" size in the formatting options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I recently resized a 10TB drive to 50TB, but Windows still shows it as being 10TB. System has been rebooted a few times but no change.
Any advice?
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