From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5494A158094 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:19:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D229E0886; Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:19:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pg1-f176.google.com (mail-pg1-f176.google.com [209.85.215.176]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ADB99E0871 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:19:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pg1-f176.google.com with SMTP id 73so1887334pgb.9 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2022 11:19:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc; bh=faFdvFG5Q6erx3lUdr9Y1eFUWhfTj1NYF7v0RJWfdgc=; b=trJQS2iBmwhI58hZeR+eWwBNpab0990a2+c+726d1LJnFFRxjaB15CQZIvBfweMSPl K360NLxcJfNzdi/OOHKUINFPEJlVLavPFXAxjmMGD86kl63stv7+UEXRIKb3fwXYHghe umY42S5qBWWIlwvAojbEv110Ypa1JSkXrurda9wCopQQys3TB7BSt9uPiySxg/evuLkL 4y2E/hNV4NPIFcsoET/91/SskKUEA3d4Fgtb9qmxUf0Ncd76Uumdb8ITufeWRctPT0UC VAd2s/Y0NxVbCn3PgKG4/V/QRPrT/aZCFskam9in97kdWSllycb5dqmwzX9toLLd0QLN sdaw== X-Gm-Message-State: ACgBeo2JGWRyX/TZxrunfY0N0WMTX443T0cYa4vpxEHy0l5usBgQmkgI UAngsyqYz1WUraz375WHllvVw8v1RrDAEAU8DMC7ByxTWjcVCg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA6agR4hsdxLxrQNViHsoHgweo4JExo8kLNkMVG/Wdc1sylLik3chPKo3WZoMiusZ5FdHRxC+CyTQcKosZoNTjTc6sI= X-Received: by 2002:a63:4608:0:b0:41a:617f:e194 with SMTP id t8-20020a634608000000b0041a617fe194mr3400406pga.152.1660846743087; Thu, 18 Aug 2022 11:19:03 -0700 (PDT) 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 References: In-Reply-To: From: Rich Freeman Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:18:52 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 0f933fd1-9318-46a1-874b-9a1ac3a813b3 X-Archives-Hash: 1980a10f7aae1634e7ea8aa0df0c498c 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. -- Rich