Whitepaper
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This document provides a comprehensive explanation of industry-standard capacity concepts and the capacity reporting mechanisms provided by the NVMe specification. While applicable to any operating system, the examples included in this document are based on Linux using the industry standard NVMe management CLI (nvme-cli), available on GitHub at https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli and the blockdev command line tool (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/blockdev.8.html).
