Linux is saying I have a 1.5TB drive, when I don't.

Pen guin · 11-30-2022, 11:21 AM

I've only bought 1TB drives, yet Linux is saying I have a 1.5TB drive with a long alphanumeric number, and it's not the model number of the drive.

It says there are 22 files on the drive with 1.4TB free. To make matters worse, Windows says Drive E is full with - wait for it - zero bytes of information on it. And it's only a year old. Disk info, says it's in good health.

wpeckham · 11-30-2022, 11:33 AM

Welcome to the world of differences between based 2 Tera and based ten tera, and the wonders of formatting overhead with different reporting by different operating systems. It is SO much fun!

boughtonp · 11-30-2022, 11:38 AM

Ok. You've posted a bunch of statements, but zero questions.

If your intent is to get help, you need to provide more information than you have.

Some of that can be provided by "inxi", "lsblk" and "df" commands.

You say it's a year old - so it was working fine previously and has unexpectedly changed behaviour?

jailbait · 11-30-2022, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pen guin

Linux is saying I have a 1.5TB drive with a long alphanumeric number, and it's not the model number of the drive.

Is it an alphanumeric number or a hexadecimal number? When Linux formats a partition it gives the partition a partition ID using hexadecimal digits 0 through f.

michaelk · 11-30-2022, 02:45 PM

A labeled 1 TB drive is equal to ~931 GiB. A labeled 1.5 TB drive is equal to ~1.396 TiB.

So what you posted would make sense. Without any context as to how drive e: is formatted etc it is not possible to say why Windows thinks it is full.

jefro · 12-03-2022, 08:50 AM

Partition manager from command line in Windows should report same.

Pen guin · 12-07-2022, 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jailbait

Is it an alphanumeric number or a hexadecimal number? When Linux formats a partition it gives the partition a partition ID using hexadecimal digits 0 through f.

I found out later that, that alphanumeric number was its UUID...