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11-30-2022, 11:21 AM
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Registered: Oct 2019
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Linux is saying I have a 1.5TB drive, when I don't.
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.
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11-30-2022, 11:33 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2010
Location: Continental USA
Distribution: Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, DSL, Puppy, CentOS, Knoppix, Mint-DE, Sparky, VSIDO, tinycore, Q4OS, Manjaro
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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!
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11-30-2022, 11:38 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: UK
Distribution: Debian
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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?
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11-30-2022, 12:21 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Debian 12
Posts: 8,385
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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.
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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. |
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11-30-2022, 02:45 PM
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Registered: Aug 2002
Posts: 26,759
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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.
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12-03-2022, 08:50 AM
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Registered: Mar 2008
Posts: 22,361
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Partition manager from command line in Windows should report same.
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12-07-2022, 06:27 PM
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Registered: Oct 2019
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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.
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I found out later that, that alphanumeric number was its UUID... |
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