I have increased the size of the partition of my Pop_OS installation (/nvme0n1p4) from 128 GB to 650 GB using Gparted (from the live USB stick). I have set it exactly to 650 GB.

But in Pop_OS I now have the problem that I am shown three different sizes:

  • The command fdisk -l tells me that the partition has a size of 634.8 GB.
  • The app “disks” tells me that the partition has a size of 682 GB.
  • The app “Stacer” tells me the partition has a size of 624.2 GB.

I am now a bit confused and would like to ask you if anyone knows a solution or can at least tell me which indication is correct. I mean, if this indication is wrong, is the information at all correct, how much space of the SSD is already used? I also see different specifications there…

  • jaderoEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    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.

    • el FredoOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      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.