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native acorn Feb 3, 2024, 5:02 AM

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Good evening. Im having a weird issue; I have a 500GB partition for my games. In my Files, 'Games bulk' shows 464.6 GB free. Its a brand new partition, shouldnt be anything on it. Disk Analyzer imo shows the most correct, it shows 489.6 GB available out of 491.0 GB, and when going into it, it only shows the one game I installed, around 1.4GB. Now, Steam, shows 432.7 GB Free of 457.3 GB. It should show close to 500 GB right? Am I looking at this wrong?

modern jungle Feb 3, 2024, 5:12 AM

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looks like Files is the most correct. 500GB equals 465.6 GiB

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idk what the Disk analyzer program program uses, probably Metric.

native acorn Feb 3, 2024, 5:16 AM

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So, the Files and Disk Analyzer show the same size, but in different formats. Is it possible to change the Files to show the 500GB not 500GiB? Also, would that explain Steam seeing 23GB of 'Other' even though nothing is there?

modern jungle Feb 3, 2024, 5:17 AM

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on a drive that big, the ext4 filesystem formatting consumes some appreciable amount

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also your drive may not even be exactly 500 metric GB to start with... type lsblk --bytes to see it in raw bytes capacity and see if it's even exactly 500 billion.

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i can't quite explain the 23 GB of Other

native acorn Feb 3, 2024, 5:19 AM

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This is the result

modern jungle Feb 3, 2024, 5:19 AM

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ok it is pretty darn near 500 billion bytes

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so Files, the file manager is the most correct

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and yes, u can change Files (Nemo) from Cinnamon to display in SI (metric) prefixes in its options

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if you arent interacting at all with Windows, then fine. but if you're used to Windows file sizes, know that they're all reported as Binary prefixes not metric

native acorn Feb 3, 2024, 5:23 AM

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I gotcha, I'll look into that, thank you! And I'll see whats going on with Steam's view, not sure what its seeing but I'll see if I figure it out

modern jungle Feb 3, 2024, 5:24 AM

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native acorn I gotcha, I'll look into that, thank you! And I'll see whats going on with Steam...

also run the app named Disks (gnome-disks if u launch it from terminal) it will show all in Metric, and will show details of what's available vs what's free to account for formatting overhead

native acorn Feb 3, 2024, 5:25 AM

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If Iwere to reformat this disk, what format would you recommend for a disk this size?

modern jungle Feb 3, 2024, 5:26 AM

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if it gets written to by any linux OS, then keep as ext4

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yeah. safer filesystem.

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