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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.13 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 4c205983-8cc7-4568-be13-e7e1fa70424f X-Archives-Hash: 6fafefc61443d9017afc3ed7f9ee023e Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 2:04 PM Dale 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 :-)  :-)