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    <title>topic cfdisk / parted larger disks than provisioned in ESXi Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;"&gt;I've generated and deployed an OVA via ovftool (running &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;CentOS 6.2 on a ESXi 5.1).&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The VMs used to generate the OVA and to deploy it were both provisioned as 32GB.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;However, Linux (&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;"&gt;'cfdisk', '&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;parted /dev/sda unit GB print free' etc.) indicates that the disk size is 34GB.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Trying a 64GB VM, such tools report 68GB.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is it normal to expect a ~ 2GB larger disk per 32GB of provisioned size?&amp;nbsp; If so, why?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:10:27 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>fwragge</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2014-10-07T00:10:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>cfdisk / parted larger disks than provisioned</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/cfdisk-parted-larger-disks-than-provisioned/m-p/1792400#M174430</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;"&gt;I've generated and deployed an OVA via ovftool (running &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;CentOS 6.2 on a ESXi 5.1).&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The VMs used to generate the OVA and to deploy it were both provisioned as 32GB.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;However, Linux (&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;"&gt;'cfdisk', '&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;parted /dev/sda unit GB print free' etc.) indicates that the disk size is 34GB.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Trying a 64GB VM, such tools report 68GB.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is it normal to expect a ~ 2GB larger disk per 32GB of provisioned size?&amp;nbsp; If so, why?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:10:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>fwragge</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-10-07T00:10:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: cfdisk / parted larger disks than provisioned</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/cfdisk-parted-larger-disks-than-provisioned/m-p/1792401#M174431</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Many tools, such as "cfdisk", use the International System of Units (SI) prefixes in order to be consistent with how hard drive manufacturers convey size. For example a kilobyte is considered to equal 1,000 bytes.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;vSphere/vCenter uses binary prefixes to indicate size. For example a kilobyte is considered to equal 1,024 bytes.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Why do the tools show 34 GB and vSphere 32 GB?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;vSphere:&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;SPAN style="color: #000000;"&gt;&lt;EM&gt;32 GiB&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; = 32,768 MiB = 33,554,432 KiB = 34,359,738,368 B (note the lower case "i" conveys binary units)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;cfdisk:&lt;/STRONG&gt; 34,359,738,368 B = 34,359,739 kB = 34,360 MB = &lt;SPAN style="color: #000000;"&gt;&lt;EM&gt;34 GB&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So yes, what you are seeing is expected. Nothing's wrong. Doesn't make things any less confusing though. &lt;img id="smileywink" class="emoticon emoticon-smileywink" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.png" alt="Smiley Wink" title="Smiley Wink" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:13:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/cfdisk-parted-larger-disks-than-provisioned/m-p/1792401#M174431</guid>
      <dc:creator>dabson</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-10-07T01:13:45Z</dc:date>
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