[clug] Disk size

Bryan Kilgallin kilgallin at iinet.net.au
Tue Aug 28 05:47:27 UTC 2018


Hey, Eyal:

> For a while now I noticed that recently acquired USB disks offer less 
> storage than advertised.
...
> So SSDs are afflicted too.
> 
> What is this trend? The GB/Gib excuse ran out of steam? What is it now?
> 
> Will disk space collapse into a black hole and become a write-only medium?

Isn't that used-up by the filesystem?
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