Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

[Rich Freeman]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 2:04 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

10 TB = 9.09495 TiB.  You aren't missing much of anything.

And no, I don't want to get into a religious war over base 2 vs base
10, and why it would be confusing if a tape that could store 10MB/m
didn't store 10kB/mm but instead stored 10.24 kB/mm.

-- 
Rich