List all devices, partitions and volumes in Powershell

Question

I have multiple volumes (as nearly everybody nowadays): on Windows they end up specified as C:, D: and so on. How do I list these all like on a Unix machine with \"ls /mnt/\" wi

Answer 1

You can also do it on the CLI with

net use

Answer 2

This is pretty old, but I found following worth noting:

PS N:\> (measure-command {Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk|select -property deviceid|%{$_.deviceid}|out-host}).totalmilliseconds
...
928.7403
PS N:\> (measure-command {gdr -psprovider 'filesystem'|%{$_.name}|out-host}).totalmilliseconds
...
169.474

Without filtering properties, on my test system, 4319.4196ms to 1777.7237ms. Unless I need a PS-Drive object returned, I'll stick with WMI.

EDIT: I think we have a winner: PS N:> (measure-command {[System.IO.DriveInfo]::getdrives()|%{$_.name}|out-host}).to‌​talmilliseconds 110.9819

Answer 3

Get-Volume

You will get: DriveLetter, FileSystemLabel, FileSystem, DriveType, HealthStatus, SizeRemaining and Size.

Answer 4

To get all of the file system drives, you can use the following command:

gdr -PSProvider 'FileSystem'

gdr is an alias for Get-PSDrive, which includes all of the "virtual drives" for the registry, etc.

Answer 5

Firstly, on Unix you use mount, not ls /mnt: many things are not mounted in /mnt.

Anyhow, there's the mountvol DOS command, which continues to work in Powershell, and there's the Powershell-specific Get-PSDrive.

Answer 6

On Windows Powershell:

Get-PSDrive 
[System.IO.DriveInfo]::getdrives()
wmic diskdrive
wmic volume

Also the utility dskwipe: http://smithii.com/dskwipe

dskwipe.exe -l