Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 2:04 PM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Part. #     Size        Partition Type            Partition Name
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>             1007.0 KiB  free space
>>    1        9.1 TiB     Linux filesystem          10Tb
>>             1007.5 KiB  free space
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure why there seems to be two alignment spots.  Is that
>> normal?  Already, there is almost 1TB lost somewhere.
> 10 TB = 9.09495 TiB.  You aren't missing much of anything.
>
> And no, I don't want to get into a religious war over base 2 vs base
> 10, and why it would be confusing if a tape that could store 10MB/m
> didn't store 10kB/mm but instead stored 10.24 kB/mm.
>


Well, I realize it would be less than advertised but I just want to
maximize it as much as I can.  I found the -m option for the file system
a good while back and it saves a lot on these larger drives.  Since this
is a external drive, no point in reserving any root space, since root
will likely never access it after the file system is put on it. 

Nice to know it is a conversion thing going on tho.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)