Failover cluster - get disk path ?

Hi
i have created a failover cluster, with two disk cluster disk1 and cluster disk 2, is there any powershell command which can get me the path of the disk. like return value should be S:/
Thanks
Sid
sid

Hi sidhanttiwari,
Additional, you can refer the following related article to get more information about your shared storage.
PowerShell for Failover Clustering: CSV Free Disk Space (and other info)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2010/06/19/10027366.aspx
Understanding the state of your Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server 2012 R2
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2013/12/05/10474312.aspx
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