chkdsk and dir commands report different free space

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Igor Feher

Hello,



I would like to know why is there different free space reported by chkdsk and dir commands.


I created a compressed NTFS drive and have one folder with files in it. There are no errors on drive at least as reported by chkdsk:

x:\>chkdsk x:

The type of the file system is NTFS.

Volume label is xxx.



WARNING! /F parameter not specified.

Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.



Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...

139264 file records processed.

File verification completed.

6971 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.



Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...

4 reparse records processed.

193310 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.

0 unindexed files scanned.

0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.

4 reparse records processed.



Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...

Security descriptor verification completed.

27023 data files processed.



Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.

No further action is required.



1953497087 KB total disk space.

1712834324 KB in 105051 files.

25868 KB in 27025 indexes.

0 KB in bad sectors.

265143 KB in use by the system.

65536 KB occupied by the log file.

240371752 KB available on disk.



4096 bytes in each allocation unit.

488374271 total allocation units on disk.

60092938 allocation units available on disk.



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x:\>dir

Volume in drive x is xxx

Volume Serial Number is xxxx



Directory of x:\



20/01/2021 01:21 <DIR> xxxxx

0 File(s) 0 bytes

1 Dir(s) 82.100.224 bytes free


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The difference here is 240371752 KB available on disk reported by chkdsk vs 80176KB reported by dir and file explorer.

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