On 19/09/2020 13:25, Carlos E. R. wrote:
It is 7.558GB, or 7GiB. No way 8GB.
So fdisk says 14761984 sectors So f3 says 14731112 sectors A 39872 sector difference. If I was asked to speculate on the 'why' I'd first suggest that the 'shortfall' are what might be termed "error correction lookaside sectors" and the metadata to make it work. Back in the days when rotating rust took two men to life, I implemented a error correction system, the likes of which I'm sure is built into modern drives transparently. It revered a few cylinders that substituted for one gone bad. The driver had a look-aside table. A seek for the bad cylinder was redirected to the lookaside. Yes it slowed things down, yes it gave up some disk capacity. Yes you had to make a best effort to copy the stuff from the sector-gone-bad to the lookaside. I'm sure its a lot more sophisticated now. I'm sure its built into the firmware of the device. That would be my first guess. A second guess isn't going to happen until after a second pot of coffee and isn't going to happen on a Sunday. -- Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT. You feel sleepy. Notice how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org