List all devices, partitions and volumes in Powershell

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wishi picture wishi · Nov 2, 2009 · Viewed 166.1k times · Source

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/" with Powershell?

Answer

bdukes picture bdukes · Nov 2, 2009

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.

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