Simple fio file for using Drive letters on Windows.
This will create a file called “fiofile” on the F:\ Drive in Windows. Notice that the specification is “Driveletter” “Backslash” “Colon” “Filename”
In fio terms we are “escaping” the “:” which fio traditionally uses as a file separator.
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[global] bs=1024k size=1G time_based runtime=30 rw=read direct=1 iodepth=8 [job1] filename=F\:fiofile |
To run IO to multiple drives (Add the group_reporting) flag to make the output more sane.
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[global] bs=1024k size=1G time_based runtime=30 rw=read direct=1 iodepth=8 group_reporting [job1] filename=F\:fiofile [job2] filename=G\:fiofile |