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cfdisk / parted larger disks than provisioned

Hi,

I've generated and deployed an OVA via ovftool (running CentOS 6.2 on a ESXi 5.1). 

The VMs used to generate the OVA and to deploy it were both provisioned as 32GB. 

However, Linux ('cfdisk', 'parted /dev/sda unit GB print free' etc.) indicates that the disk size is 34GB.

Trying a 64GB VM, such tools report 68GB.

Is it normal to expect a ~ 2GB larger disk per 32GB of provisioned size?  If so, why?

Thanks.

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