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You are likely comparing the values in the Control Panel with the size and/or
usage displayed in your server's metrics
dashboard or output by the df
command, which the dashboard should match.
Despite df being short for 'disk free', it actually reports the total size and
usage of each file system, rather than each disk. Since file systems
allocate some amount of disk space up front for their own use (often
proportional to the size of the disk!), this means that the total size you see
in the dashboards and from df will be a bit less than the disk size reported
by the Control Panel.
If you'd like to specifically view the size of your disks, not file systems,
on your server, you can run the lsblk ('list block devices') command or
consult the Control Panel, whose disk sizes should match lsblk. For the
curious, a 'block device' is Unix parlance for disks, partitions, and other
devices which can be read from and/or written to in blocks of bits.
The disk space that file systems allocate up front for themselves is used in
ways that vary between specific file systems (such as ext4, btrfs, and
zfs). If you have provisioned a server with us, it will most likely be using
ext4, which pre-allocates space for file metadata (time stamps,
permissions, and so forth) and reserves some space for the root user to ensure
the system can be recovered if the disk fills up.