Thanks Bruce. I already figure it out. Below is the working config I used. [job1] ioengine=windowsaio iodepth=4 rw=write filename=\\.\F\: Thanks, Ritchie Babaylan Advance CORE Engineering BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Cran [mailto:bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 7:05 AM To: Jens Axboe; Ritchie Babaylan; fio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Run FIO on a Windows Partition On 8/7/2014 3:28 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 08/03/2014 06:12 PM, Ritchie Babaylan wrote: >> I am just curios if FIO can test a Windows partition, say F: as the assigned drive letter. >> What would be the correct syntax do I need to put on a "filename" parameter? >> Do I need to use the "directory" parameter instead? Specifying F: (or F:\) would test the filesystem, not the partition. I'm not aware of any way to easily test the area of disk on which the partition resides - you'd need to test the disk \\.\PhysicalDriveX and seek to the starting sector. However, Windows prevents writes to areas of a disk which contains filesystems, so you would only be able to read and not write. -- Bruce -- 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
