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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.

vSphere/vCenter uses binary prefixes to indicate size. For example a kilobyte is considered to equal 1,024 bytes.

Why do the tools show 34 GB and vSphere 32 GB?

vSphere: 32 GiB = 32,768 MiB = 33,554,432 KiB = 34,359,738,368 B (note the lower case "i" conveys binary units)

cfdisk: 34,359,738,368 B = 34,359,739 kB = 34,360 MB = 34 GB

So yes, what you are seeing is expected. Nothing's wrong. Doesn't make things any less confusing though. Smiley Wink


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