On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name > > only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable > > space. > > 18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4 bytes, so if you convert this > into "computer units" is ~16.37 * 1024^4 bytes. If you then make an > ext4 filesystem on it with the customary 5% reserved for root, that gets > you down to 15.5TB, to which you also have to remove the space used by > inodes, so yes, probably about 15TB and of course, once you start > putting actual files ion the drive, additional space will be used by > directories and metadata.
Now now, let's not derail a rant with facts :) That being said, I thought the variance from TB -> TiB was 10%; or have I gotten it backwards? -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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