Windows 10: does a mounted volume use disk space on the hard drive?

I have a Box mounted volume. Does this also use space on my hard drive?

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How to view free space of a mounted volume in windows 10 ?

Hi Marvin,

• Running Windows 10 version 1709, Build 16299.125.
  • Have been running Win10 since the initial release, auto update is turned on
    
  • Previous versions until ~ April/May 2017 have worked fine.

• This is a home-built system, about 5 years old.
  • Intel i5-2500K CPU
    
  • Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 motherboard
    
  • Sapphire/AMD Radeon HD5750 graphics card
  • Multiple HDD's (Seagate, Samsung), all formatted at NTFS, all 2TB+
  • 5 HDD's are mounted this way, and the problem affects all of them.
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  Troubleshooting attempts:
  
  • Tried remounting in a new folder - no success
  • Assigned drive letter - Works fine
  • Assigned drive letter AND mounting to a folder simultaneously - Drive letter works, folder-mounted volume reports zero used/free space
    
  • Ran extended disk diagnostics (Seagate SeaTools, WD DataLifeguard) - No problems found
  • Hard Disk Sentinel Pro 3.60 reports 100% health on all volumes.
  • Tried mounting a new HDD - Windows reports zero Free space and zero Used space
  • Tried turning Disk Indexing on and off -- no effect
  • Have not tried Safe-Mode yet
  • Have not defragged because there have been no disk performance issues or errors ***EDIT*** Windows reports that all volumes are being optimized automatically (Frequency: Weekly). I did not realize this was enabled.
    
  • Have not done a clean install of Windows

 

How to view free space of a mounted volume in windows 10 ?

I have several mounted drives attached to folders. At one time I was
able to see the free space under "properties" but NOT now.

I did some "experimentation":

Windows + R

CMD

C:>dir

[gives me a list of all the volumes, including mounted drives. So if one of my "mounted drives" is listed as "Seagate backup plus", if I type WITH " " marks:]

dir "Seagate backup plus"

[I will see a list of all directories on THAT drive AND disk usage statistics]

 

How to view free space of a mounted volume in windows 10 ?

I have a mounted volume - i.e, c:\directory

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Under windows 7 if i clicked directory and then property it would show it is a mounted volume. If I then ask for properties of that mounted volume it would show free space.

Under windows 10 it shows used and free space as 0. If I use disk management and click on properties of the partition that is mounted again it shows 0 free space and 0 space used. However, the disk is obviously mounted and the files on it accessible.

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Is there a way to check how much space is free ?