On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:04:57 -0500 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy, > > I got my 10TB drive in today. I want to maximize the amount of data I > can put on this thing and it remain stable. I know about -m 0 when > making the file system but was wondering if there is any other tips or > tricks to make the most of the drive space. This is the output of cgdisk. > > > 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. Any way to > increase that and still be safe? Right now, I've ran the short test and > it is chewing on the long test. It will be done around 7AM tomorrow, 19 > or 20 hours to complete. As it is, there's no data on it or even a file > system either. Now is the time to tweak things. > > Any tips or ideas would be appreciated. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Ah yes, the good old harddisk marketing size calculating in base 1000, while TiB is in base 1024. In short: 1TB=1000^4 != 1TiB=1024^4 Do the math yourself, what 10TB should be in TiB, but it's in the ballpark of 9.1TiB ;)
