Cluster size for the file system

July 20th, 2019 | Tags:

How can I view the allocation unit size of a NTFS partition in Windows?

C:\temp>fsutil fsinfo drives

Drives: C:\ D:\ E:\ F:\ G:\ I:\ J:\ N:\ O:\ P:\ S:\

C:\temp>fsutil fsinfo ntfsInfo N:
NTFS Volume Serial Number :       0xfe5a90935a9049f3
NTFS Version   :                  3.1
LFS Version    :                  2.0
Number Sectors :                  0x00000002e15befff
Total Clusters :                  0x000000005c2b7dff
Free Clusters  :                  0x000000005c2a15f0
Total Reserved :                  0x0000000000000000
Bytes Per Sector  :               512
Bytes Per Physical Sector :       512
Bytes Per Cluster :               4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment    : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length :           0x0000000000040000
Mft Start Lcn  :                  0x00000000000c0000
Mft2 Start Lcn :                  0x0000000000000002
Mft Zone Start :                  0x00000000000c0000
Mft Zone End   :                  0x00000000000cc820
Resource Manager Identifier :     560F51B2-CEFA-11E5-80C9-98BE94F91273

C:\temp>fsutil fsinfo ntfsInfo N:
NTFS Volume Serial Number :       0x36acd4b1acd46d3d
NTFS Version   :                  3.1
LFS Version    :                  2.0
Number Sectors :                  0x00000002e15befff
Total Clusters :                  0x0000000005c2b7df
Free Clusters  :                  0x0000000005c2ac28
Total Reserved :                  0x0000000000000000
Bytes Per Sector  :               512
Bytes Per Physical Sector :       512
Bytes Per Cluster :               65536
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment    : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length :           0x0000000000010000
Mft Start Lcn  :                  0x000000000000c000
Mft2 Start Lcn :                  0x0000000000000001
Mft Zone Start :                  0x000000000000c000
Mft Zone End   :                  0x000000000000cca0
Resource Manager Identifier :     560F51C3-CEFA-11E5-80C9-98BE94F91273

Cluster size

NTFS Max Size

  512 bytes             

  2,199,023,255,040 (2TB)

 1024 bytes

  4,398,046,510,080 (4TB)

 2048 bytes

  8,796,093,020,160 (8TB)

 4096 bytes

 17,592,186,040,320 (16TB) Default cluster size

 8192 bytes

 35,184,372,080,640 (32TB)

16384 bytes  

 70,368,744,161,280 (64TB)

32768 bytes

140,737,488,322,560 (128TB)

65536 bytes            

281,474,976,654,120 (256TB)

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