Re: Running FIO on Windows on given partition or raw device

[Bruce Cran <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 Apr 2012, at 10:04, Neependra Khare <neependra.khare@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> $ fio.exe   --name=baseline --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --size=1g
> --iodepth=32 --blocksize=4096 --ioengine=windowsaio
> --filename=E:\filename --name=hddBaseline --stonewall
> 
> In all these cases I do not see any IO happening on "E" drive using
> "perfmon". All the IO happens on the root drive("C").

':' is a file name separator in fio (so e:\filename is writing to \filename on the current disk) so you should try escaping it, e.g. --filename=E\:\filename .

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Bruce Cran--
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