Windows 2000 Administration in a Nutshell

Name

diskperf

Synopsis

Enables disk performance counters for the Performance console (see Performance).

Syntax

diskperf [-y[d|v] | -n[d|v] ] [\\computername]

Options

none

Displays current status of disk performance counters on local machine.

computername

Specifies computer on which to view or set disk performance counters. (The default is local machine.)

-y

Enables disk performance counters for both physical and logical drives upon rebooting.

-yd

Enables disk performance counters for physical drives only upon rebooting (new to Windows 2000).

-yv

Enables disk performance counters for logical drives only upon rebooting (new to Windows 2000).

-n

Disables disk performance counters for both physical and logical drives upon rebooting.

-nd

Disables disk performance counters for physical drives only upon rebooting (new to Windows 2000).

-nv

Disables disk performance counters for logical drives only upon rebooting (new to Windows 2000).

Examples

Enable both physical and logical disk performance counters on the local machine upon rebooting:

                     diskperf -y 
Both Logical and Physical Disk Performance counters on this system are now set
to start at boot.

Notes

By default, only physical disk performance counters are enabled; logical counters must be specifically enabled. If you change the default setting, you can later restore them with diskperf -yd.

See Also

Performance