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free space
1. The amount of capacity reported to an end user as unused assigned capacity.
In a simple world, free space is normally the same as assigned capacity less the amount of assigned capacity already written. But restrictions such as quotas, thin provisioning, and interactions between systems using different arithmetic may cause the reported free space to vary from the actual quantity.
2. The amount of capacity reported to the storage admin as unused formatted capacity.