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Old 01-14-2019
fdisk is reporting 512 bytes sectors but nowadays, disks have 4096 bytes sectors.

The discrepancy between the available size (1172107117 x 512 bytes sectors) and the amount actually used (1172107151 x 512 bytes sectors) is 34 sectors, i.e. 4.25 (sic) actual sectors.

So you have 0.0000029 % of the disk unusable due to rounding errors. No big deal.
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Old 01-16-2019
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Originally Posted by jlliagre
fdisk is reporting 512 bytes sectors but nowadays, disks have 4096 bytes sectors.

The discrepancy between the available size (1172107117 x 512 bytes sectors) and the amount actually used (1172107151 x 512 bytes sectors) is 34 sectors, i.e. 4.25 (sic) actual sectors.

So you have 0.0000029 % of the disk unusable due to rounding errors. No big deal.
Hi jlliagre,

Thanks for taking this up.

q1) what do you mean by "4.25 (sic) actual sectors." ? Where the 4.25 ?
q2) 1172107151 > did you count from 0 to 1172107150 ? (as the partition starts from 256 -> probably due to alignment set by Oracle)

Regards,
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