Hi, I want to run FIO on a given partition on Windows. To do this I use the "mountvol" command and get the volume names and their mount points and then use them for "filename" option with FIO For example for "E:\" get following from "mountvol" command. \\?\Volume{1277e70d-79a7-11e1-9fed-f04da2ef6fc9}\ E:\ Then I run following commands:- $ fio.exe --name=baseline --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --size=1g --iodepth=32 --blocksize=4096 --ioengine=windowsaio --filename=\\.\Volume{1277e70d-79a7-11e1-9fed-f04da2ef6fc9} --name=hddBaseline --stonewall $ fio.exe --name=baseline --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --size=1g --iodepth=32 --blocksize=4096 --ioengine=windowsaio --filename=E:\ --name=hddBaseline --stonewall $ fio.exe --name=baseline --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --size=1g --iodepth=32 --blocksize=4096 --ioengine=windowsaio --filename=E:\filename --name=hddBaseline --stonewall In all these cases I do not see any IO happening on "E" drive using "perfmon". All the IO happens on the root drive("C"). On Linux I can use "/dev/sda" , "/dev/sda1" etc. I was expecting same on Windows. Any help or pointers would be great. -- Regards, Neependra www.neependra.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html