[clug] Disk size

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

On 28/08/18 15:47, Bryan Kilgallin via linux wrote:
> 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?

No, fdisk reports the physical size of the disk. 'df' reports the file system view.

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