According to the latest reports, Microsoft is developing a new command-line tool called DiskUsage, which can help users more easily understand the disk footprint on Windows 10 devices.
The new DiskUsage tool (currently only available in the preview version) can show users the size of the files/folders on each disk, which can help you understand the actual situation of the storage space on the PC. Using the DiskUsage tool, users can clearly see which folder occupies a lot of space in a certain disk/partition/folder.
With this command, users can choose to filter certain file types and can search for certain specific folders or directories, and use other filters to find the largest folders. Of course, you can also use filters to skip certain files based on the type of the file.
For example, you can run the command “Disk usage/minFileSize=1073741824/hc:\windows” to quickly identify folders larger than 1073741824 bytes (ie 1GB or 1000MB) in the “Windows” folder.
In addition, you can also sort the folder list by folder size, just use the command “diskusage/u = 5/hc:/windows”.
Microsoft will launch a new version of the Windows 10 disk analysis function: to help users search for the largest folder
Users can use the DiskUsage tool to find the largest files and folders in a specific drive or directory, and then use filters to identify files larger or smaller than a certain size (gigabytes, megabytes, and kilobytes).
This function is currently under development and has at least the following functions:
- Scan the specified folder or the entire driver and show detailed information about how much each subfolder is used
- Shows the size of system files and reserved space (if enabled)
- Filter information by FileSize and SizeOnDisk
- Use the “greater than or equal to SIZE” filter to identify folders
- Customize output
In addition to DiskUsage tools, Microsoft is trying to prepare health monitoring functions for some new storage built-in SSDs in the settings.
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