Bloatware pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS to an incredible 60GB : Android
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[–]aliniaziS22U | P4XL, 2XL, N8, N20U, S10, S9+, OP6, 7Pro, PH-1(RIP) [score hidden] 16 hours ago* (48 children)
Ron Amadeo has zero clue how partitioning works. In settings, the phone is counting its storage size as exactly 512GB, which we know is inaccurate due to partitioning losses.
Instead of reporting the actual storage capacity on the phone, they show this lost space as used up by the system storage, probably to make sure people don't get confused. Additionally, the amount used up by the system is different for each storage spec of the phone. The lower you go in storage tiers on Samsung phones, the lower the system usage, indicating that the system value is just inflated to account for partitioning. The OS is otherwise the same between storage tiers; there would be no other reason for the differing sizes reported by the phone.
StorageStatsManager.getTotalBytes() - Return the total size of the underlying physical media that is hosting this storage volume. This value is best suited for visual display to end users, since it's designed to reflect the total storage size advertised in a retail environment. Apps making logical decisions about disk space should always use File#getTotalSpace() instead of this value.
