List all devices, partitions and volumes in Powershell

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I have multiple volumes (as nearly everybody nowadays): on Windows they end up specified as C:, D: and so on. How do I list these all like on a Unix machine with "ls /mnt/" with Powershell?

get-psdrive will return this Name Provider Root CurrentLocation ---- -------- ---- --------------- A FileSystem A:Alias Alias C FileSystem C:\ scripts — streetparade, Nov 02 '09 at 21:02

bdukes · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-08T20:05:12.117

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To get all of the file system drives, you can use the following command:

gdr -PSProvider 'FileSystem'

gdr is an alias for Get-PSDrive, which includes all of the "virtual drives" for the registry, etc.

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answered Nov 02 '09 at 20:52

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This also include the CD ROM which I am not sure is desired in all use cases keep that in mind guys. – Atif Ali Mar 29 '19 at 00:53
or you could also use Get-WmiObject Win32_LogicalDisk – Gustavo A Garcia Dec 04 '19 at 16:18
This also does not include mount points such as iSCSI disks. – duct_tape_coder Oct 27 '21 at 18:44

score 44 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '20 at 19:31

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Get-Volume

You will get: DriveLetter, FileSystemLabel, FileSystem, DriveType, HealthStatus, SizeRemaining and Size.

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Yousha Aleayoub

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answered Oct 24 '13 at 20:22

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Get-Volume appears to be available only on Windows-Server 2012 and Windows-Server 2016. – Bram Nov 28 '16 at 09:46
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Get-Volume worked for me running powershell 5.1. Perhaps they made this standard in recent years/recent updates. This answer should get more attention. – Josh Desmond Jun 17 '17 at 03:59
This is now the right answer. The answers using Get-PDDrive are for older versions of powershell – Michael Shaw Dec 13 '19 at 05:24
If you want details, there is Get-Drive and Get-Partition, that can be piped for everything. Get-Drive | Get-Partition – Nathan Hartley Dec 16 '21 at 03:42
Worked for me on Windows 11 Pro. – Adam D. Apr 03 '23 at 00:03
Also worked for me in Windows 11. This is definitely the way to go. – nevarDeath Aug 27 '23 at 14:45

score 14 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 22 '12 at 15:49

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On Windows Powershell:

Get-PSDrive 
[System.IO.DriveInfo]::getdrives()
wmic diskdrive
wmic volume

Also the utility dskwipe: http://smithii.com/dskwipe

dskwipe.exe -l

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answered Jul 23 '12 at 09:19

To tag on, you can also include a flag from another answer `-PSProvider:'FileSystem'` to display only file systems. – FilBot3 Apr 25 '16 at 17:37

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 02 '09 at 20:52

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Firstly, on Unix you use mount, not ls /mnt: many things are not mounted in /mnt.

Anyhow, there's the mountvol DOS command, which continues to work in Powershell, and there's the Powershell-specific Get-PSDrive.

answered Nov 02 '09 at 20:52

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 19 '19 at 10:27

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Run command:

Get-PsDrive -PsProvider FileSystem

For more info see:

answered Aug 19 '19 at 10:27

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score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 09 '14 at 20:56

Though this isn't 'powershell' specific... you can easily list the drives and partitions using diskpart, list volume

PS C:\Dev> diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: Box

DISKPART> list volume

Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
Volume 0     D                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media
Volume 1         C = System   NTFS   Partition    100 MB  Healthy    System
Volume 2     G   C = Box      NTFS   Partition    244 GB  Healthy    Boot
Volume 3     H   D = Data     NTFS   Partition    687 GB  Healthy
Volume 4     E   System Rese  NTFS   Partition    100 MB  Healthy

is it possible to get Volume ## using powershell? (For windows 7) — Chand, Aug 04 '17 at 16:00

Yevgeniy · Answer 7 · 2017-08-04T21:00:14.377

This is pretty old, but I found following worth noting:

PS N:\> (measure-command {Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk|select -property deviceid|%{$_.deviceid}|out-host}).totalmilliseconds
...
928.7403
PS N:\> (measure-command {gdr -psprovider 'filesystem'|%{$_.name}|out-host}).totalmilliseconds
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169.474

Without filtering properties, on my test system, 4319.4196ms to 1777.7237ms. Unless I need a PS-Drive object returned, I'll stick with WMI.

EDIT: I think we have a winner: PS N:> (measure-command {[System.IO.DriveInfo]::getdrives()|%{$_.name}|out-host}).to‌talmilliseconds 110.9819

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered May 09 '23 at 12:11

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To list drives:

fsutil fsinfo drives

Is also supported by CMD and requires no elevation nor extra 3rd-parties.

answered May 09 '23 at 12:11

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 26 '15 at 13:37

We have multiple volumes per drive (some are mounted on subdirectories on the drive). This code shows a list of the mount points and volume labels. Obviously you can also extract free space and so on:

gwmi win32_volume|where-object {$_.filesystem -match "ntfs"}|sort {$_.name} |foreach-object {
  echo "$(echo $_.name) [$(echo $_.label)]"
}

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Apr 08 '20 at 13:53

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You can also do it on the CLI with

net use

answered Apr 08 '20 at 13:53

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered May 25 '21 at 20:05

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You can use the following to find the "total" disk size on a drive as well.

Get-CimInstance -ComputerName yourhostname win32_logicaldisk | foreach-object {write " $($.caption) $('{0:N2}' -f ($.Size/1gb)) GB total, $('{0:N2}' -f ($_.FreeSpace/1gb)) GB free "}

answered May 25 '21 at 20:05

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this seems like a VERY minor variation of one of the previous Answers. what is the benefit to yours that is not in the other? – Lee_Dailey May 26 '21 at 00:02

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Aug 18 '21 at 04:17

Microsoft have a way of doing this as part of their az vm repair scripts (see: Repair a Windows VM by using the Azure Virtual Machine repair commands).

It is available under MIT license at: https://github.com/Azure/repair-script-library/blob/51e60cf70bba38316394089cee8e24a9b1f22e5f/src/windows/common/helpers/Get-Disk-Partitions.ps1

score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Jan 22 '23 at 21:14

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If the device is present, but not (yet) mounted, this helps:

Get-PnpDevice -PresentOnly -InstanceId SCSI*

answered Jan 22 '23 at 21:14

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