Saturday, February 20, 2016

Interesting phenomenon: Newly-spanned drives briefly appear as full

Today I installed a new drive in a VM and spanned an existing volume onto it. I noticed after doing so that Explorer showed the volume as having its new capacity, but almost full, with the same amount of free space as before. Attempting to look at the drive's properties froze Explorer.

Everything was good; in a moment, Explorer went back to normal and the real free space was reported. So, if this happens again, it's probably normal and not indicative of anything bad.

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