Can Everything show the size of used place and / or the space of a drive?

[Biff]

Can Everything show the size of used place and / or the space of a drive (not plugged in)?

[NotNull]

If you want the size of data on drive X, try searching for:

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root:X:

This does report the total size of the files on X: (in the Size column)
This requires "Index Folder Size" to be activated (Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes).

I'm not aware of Everything being able to report the remaining size on disk (it's not that kind of tool)


This is an approximation because of a few reasons:
- This reports only the files indexed by Everything. If you excluded C:\Windows, the total rported size will be smaller
- Everything reports the size of the files, not the size they occupy on disk (files are stored in portions of 4KB, so a file with size 1200bytes will actually occupy 4KB on disk.

For "nerds":
- There is something called sparse files on NTFS. (Very roughly speaking it has sort of an internal zip mechanism for "empty" parts of the file). A sparse file reported as being 4MB, can in fact occupy just 1MB of diskspace. Or 4KB ..
- Alternate datastreams (available on NTFS) are not reported.
- Not every file is actually stored on your X: drive. The $MFT reserves space for some file attributes that have variable sizes (like the filename itself or the security settings). That means that most of the time there is some extra space (typically 400-800 bytes). If it is a very small file that would fit in the $MFT, it gets stored there.
- ...

[Biff]

Thank you very much!

Very good, so I have the approximate sizes of the used space of alle the drives.

So there is no way to automatically show those sizes in the status bar / header or so.

Great, many thanks again

[froggie]

- Not every file is actually stored on your X: drive. The $MFT reserves space for some file attributes that have variable sizes (like the filename itself or the security settings). That means that most of the time there is some extra space (typically 400-800 bytes). If it is a very small file that would fit in the $MFT, it gets stored there.
- ...

Still stored on the x: drive, just in the $MFT. Each drive has its own $MFT.

[NotNull]

Still stored on the x: drive, just in the $MFT. Each drive has its own $MFT.

Yes, of course. I tried to keep it as simple as possible.
Point was that it isn't reported as available free space.