More diskinfo

Richard Siddaway Profile: Richard Siddaway

Yesterday I showed how to get the disk, partition and logical disk information using CIM. Today I want to show more diskinfo techniques.

This time we’ll use the Storage module which was introduced with Windows 8. Underneath the covers it uses CIM – just different classes. The storage module doesn’t differentiate between volumes and logical disks – it just uses volumes.

To start at the physical disk and get the partition and volumes:

$diskinfo = Get-Disk | foreach {

$parts = Get-Partition -DiskNumber $psitem.DiskNumber | where DriveLetter

$disk = $psitem

foreach ($part in $parts) {
 
 Get-Volume -Partition $part |
 foreach {
 $props = $null

$props = [ordered]@{
 Disk = $disk.Number
 Model = $disk.Model
 Firmware = $disk.FirmwareVersion
 SerialNUmber = $disk.SerialNumber
 'DiskSize(GB)' = [math]::Round(($disk.AllocatedSize / 1GB ), 2)
 Partitions = $disk.NumberOfPartitions
 Partition = $part.PartitionNumber
 BootPartition = $part.IsBoot
 'PartitionSize(GB)' = [math]::Round(($part.Size / 1GB ), 2)
 VolumeBlockSize = $psitem.AllocationUnitSize
 LDiskName = $psitem.DriveLetter
 FileSystem = $psitem.FileSystem
 LDiskSize = [math]::Round(($psitem.Size / 1GB ), 2)
 LDiskFree = [math]::Round(($psitem.SizeRemaining / 1GB ), 2)
 }

New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $props
 }
 }
 }
 $diskinfo

And to go the other way

$diskinfo = Get-Volume | 
 where {$_.DriveLetter -AND $_.DriveType -eq 'Fixed'} | 
foreach {

$part = Get-Partition -DriveLetter $psitem.DriveLetter 
 
 $disk = Get-Disk -Partition $part

$props = $null

$props = [ordered]@{
 Disk = $disk.Number
 Model = $disk.Model
 Firmware = $disk.FirmwareVersion
 SerialNUmber = $disk.SerialNumber
 'DiskSize(GB)' = [math]::Round(($disk.AllocatedSize / 1GB ), 2)
 Partitions = $disk.NumberOfPartitions
 Partition = $part.PartitionNumber
 BootPartition = $part.IsBoot
 'PartitionSize(GB)' = [math]::Round(($part.Size / 1GB ), 2)
 VolumeBlockSize = $psitem.AllocationUnitSize
 LDiskName = $psitem.DriveLetter
 FileSystem = $psitem.FileSystem
 LDiskSize = [math]::Round(($psitem.Size / 1GB ), 2)
 LDiskFree = [math]::Round(($psitem.SizeRemaining / 1GB ), 2)
 }

New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $props
 }
 $diskinfo

The number of blocks doesn’t seem to be available – suppose you could calculate it – otherwise the information is the same as with the CIM classes you saw last time. Some of the property names are different.

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