Labelling NTFS drives during format uses huge space?

[Urban Reflex]

Just NTFS formatted my new 640GB Caviar SE16 (thank you OCUK!). I labelled it "Caviar SE16" during the format and after it was finished it showed 108MB of used space (even though the drive has never been used).

I've noticed in testing that whenever you name a drive during an NTFS format it uses a large amount of disk space, whereas unnamed NTFS and either named or unnamed FAT32 formats use basically nothing.

Does any one know why?

 

[Vertigo]

Err, never seen nor heard of anything like that in my life!

 

[rpstewart]

Does any one know why?

No but I wouldn't lose sleep over 0.016% of the space.

 

[dazz25]

Never heard of anything like this before! How much space is used if there is no name?

 

[BlackBat]

I've formatted a 640GB Caviar named as "Caviar" and it used the same "large amount of disk space" (108MB) and I've formatted a 1TB Spinpoint F1 with no name and it used "basically nothing" (118MB). I believe the space is used for the file system, however, to concur with rpstewart, is a few hundred MBs worth worrying about when you're dealing with Hundreds of GBs or even TBs of space?

 

[Tosk]

doesnt windows dump files on some drives for file indexing?
maybe its that?

 

[bledd]

think it's just reserved for MBR and file names etc

 

[Elric]

think it's just reserved for MBR and file names etc

Yup, and all the SysVol info stuff.