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Pop_OS shows me the size of the partition incorrectly
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Thanks for pointing me into this direction.
When I use an online calculator to convert Gibibytes to Gigabytes, I get this result: 634.8 GiB are 682 GB. So, exactly the size that the Gnome-Disk-Utility shows.
The App Stacer tells me 624.2 GiB. When I convert this into Gigabytes, I get 670.3 GB. This size is also shown in the Pop_OS file manager.
So, in conclusion:
One step closer... Now I just need to figure out why two apps are showing too less storage space compared to the other ones.
Could it be that Stacer and file manager are somehow reporting usable space instead of "absolute" space.
I recall from the early days that there was overhead in the process, so that useable space was always less than formatted space. Perhaps that is still the case.
Yes, that can be. I also remembered that I had created a swap file. Maybe that is deducted from the available space. That also makes sense, because the swap file is not usable space.
But my swap file is 16 GB. And no matter if I calculate with 16 GiB or 16 GB, I don't get the displayed partition space.