Thread: How to get the cluster usage details of a hard disk Volume?

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    How to get the cluster usage details of a hard disk Volume?

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    How to get the cluster usage details of a hard disk Volume?
    Is there any API available...??

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    There is no way to do this in standard C++. This would have to be done specifically for the system you're using, requiring you to research the method that your system provides.

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    What operating system are you using? If it's Windows, check MSDN. If it's Linux, you could examine the source code for some disk-checking program, if you can find one. (fsck comes to mind, but that might be complicated.)

    Either way, it will probably be complicated. What are you trying to do?
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    hii

    I'm trying to copy the used clusters of a hard disk volume to another volume.And both partitions are of same size and NTFS.Now I copy everything with out checking the clusters are allocated or free.To improve the performance I wanna copy only the used clusters.And my application is "copy partition " platform Windows...

    Anyway thanks for the reply from our side.

    With regards
    Krish
    Last edited by Salem; 06-06-2009 at 04:12 AM. Reason: snipped email address

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