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Great and thank you very much for everything!

Thank you for the info! The culprit is the file system,depending what file system you use will result in some sort of loss of space. I did some test with an external 1 TB usb 3 HDD and format it in fat32,Ext4,NTFS,Btrfs and XFS and the result are very different from one and other. I am able to...

@jglen490 I'm with Fedora 33 and the pictures you see are with Gparted and Disks.Just don't understand why in a HDD for storage that I'm loosing 100 GB of data doesn't make sense to me but want to know the reason why. Started with Linux Mint then with Ubuntu then tried debian and find my home...

No partition are encrypted but thanks anyway I will test some more and see what append.

Hi and thanks for the quick reply! Gparted show me only one partition that's why i am confuse about this. And the fact is that I format this drive with Gparted in the first place any idea?

Hi new to Linux and want to know why when i format my 2 To HDD in ext4 that i loose 100 Gigs that seem to be reversed for the system? As you can see on the images it say available 252 GB and free 352 GB. I use it only for storage is it possible to take back this 100 GB ?