NTFS Disable 8dot3name

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Maybe so, but when I run the command

fsutil 8dot3name strip /l w:\storagenode5\8dot3_removal-2024-03-28.log /s /v w:

I saw:

...
AR3E79~1.V1     0xa6000000006587      "W:\storagenode5\orders\archive\archived-orders-121RTSDpyNZVcEU84Ticf2L1ntiuUimbWgfATz21tuvgk3vzoA6-1711069200000000000-1711078653858529000-ACCEPTED.v1"
ARA98E~1.V1     0xad0000000072e3      "W:\storagenode5\orders\archive\archived-orders-121RTSDpyNZVcEU84Ticf2L1ntiuUimbWgfATz21tuvgk3vzoA6-1711072800000000000-1711082245234998100-ACCEPTED.v1"
...

so…

22

Yeah, who knows what Microsoft does under the hood. The guide guys say something and coders do something else.

23

Just checked my Windows Server 2022 for the 8dot3name thing. Found it disabled for all drives but the system drive. I did never care about so this seems to be the default.

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It could be possible, that it’s because my disks are too old and I still use the old Windows version (but seems until it would stop to receive updates…), so this is why it was enabled on all my disks, not only system one.

25

I think the 8dot3 thing was a red herring from what I’ve read since posting this. Like others said, it’s disabled by default so this would only help if you have your Storj folder on your OS drive (hopefully nobody does).

10 days later I’m finally moved from the broken ReFS volume to NTFS. First time a chkdsk took 24 minutes, crazy how many files are on this thing.

Checking file system on E:
Volume label is EXOS-X14_10TB_NTFS.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
  17633024 file records processed.                                                         File verification completed.
 Phase duration (File record verification): 6.19 minutes.
  206 large file records processed.                                     Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 22.19 milliseconds.
  0 bad file records processed.                                       Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 7.42 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
  5 reparse records processed.                                         17645364 index entries processed.                                                        Index verification completed.
 Phase duration (Index verification): 18.02 minutes.

 Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 2.95 seconds.

 Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 32.50 milliseconds.
  5 reparse records processed.                                        Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 86.61 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
 Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 25.29 milliseconds.
  6170 data files processed.                                             Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 5.73 milliseconds.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

   9537533 MB total disk space.
   4380594 MB in 17626518 files.
   7271316 KB in 6172 indexes.
  17999427 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
   5132260 MB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
2441608703 total allocation units on disk.
1313858727 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 24.27 minutes (1456429 ms).
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Those numbers seems off… if your drive is X14 10 TB, why there it sais 18 TB used by the system?

27

17999427 KB = 18 GB :wink:

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:man_facepalming:t2: ignore me… to early for math :sweat_smile: