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gstorme
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May 29, 2019

New-Partition -UseMaximumSize does not create partition with full available space

When creating a partition with New-Partition -UseMaximumSize, it does not use the 100% available free space.

There seems to always be 1031680 bytes left, when looking at the difference between these values:

 

(Get-PartitionSupportedSize -DriveLetter E).SizeMax

64423443968

(Get-Partition -DriveLetter E).Size

64422412288

 

But when creating the partition with a specific size, for example 10GB, and afterwards extending it using Resize-Partition -DriveLetter E -Size 64423443968 (value from SizeMax), then it is fully used:

 

(Get-Partition -DriveLetter E).Size
64423443968

 

Is there a reason why the partition is created with a size of 1031680 bytes less, when the UseMaximumSize parameter is passed?

This causes problems because when resizing this partition afterwards, without actually having the disk resized, an error is returned:

 

The size of the extent is less than the minimum of 1MB

Which is correct, 1031680 bytes = 1007,5 KB.

 

I tested this on a Windows Server 2019 on VMWare 6.7.

 

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