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I just read this Q&A, and I think I understand the point being made.

My reputation won't allow me to comment, but I would like to ask: is either cleared or unformatted an equivalent to what Mac's Disk Utility refers to as free space?

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  • Unformatted means no well-known filesystem (i.e. NTFS, ext4, FAT...) is found on the partition. There may be one, but the computer did not find it or doesn't recognize it (i.e. ext4 disks seen as RAW in Windows...). However, the unformatted space still belongs to a disk partition.

  • Cleared means that GParted will erase every marks of the well-known filesystem, effectively making the partition unformatted.

  • Free space is any disk space that is out of a disk partition. Free space isn't and can't be formatted, or unformatted, because formats and filesystems belong to disk paritions, and free space is not a partiton.

If you have a partition seen as unformatted in GParted that is seen as free space in Mac Disk Utility, I really suggest you remove and burn the latter to ashes.

By the way, you should edit your question because readers shouldn't need to follow the link to the other Q&A you provided. Tell them what you see in your softwares and what information you would like to get. You might recieve downvotes if you don't.

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