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

[Neependra Khare <neependra.khare@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Bruce Cran <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 .

Thanks a lot Bruce.
By using  --filename=E\\:\filename I was able to run FIO on a partition.

Regards,
Neependra
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