Help Storage space doesn't add up.

[RoyalMoose]

Okay, so for some reason, my total and free storage space doesn't make sense. I've made the math, granted I suck at math, and I feel like I'm missing a few GB.

Here is a pic of the data in my Settings. When I add all of my used and free space, it adds up to 19.38GB, So why does it say that it is 25.53GB? I'm missing 6GB.

Btw, sorry for the large pic. First time here. I don't know how to make it smaller.

 

[Dannydet]

The 6gb is in the system files

 

[RoyalMoose]

The 6gb is in the system files

No, it's not, because I did the math. The Total Space (25.53GB) + System Reserved (6.47GB) = Exactly 32GB. Otherwise, it's slightly larger than the current Total Space.

This should be my current Total Space, added from Available, Apps, Cached Data and (Pics, videos, audio, downloads, misc). When you afterwards add the System Reserved, it ends up as 19.41 + 6.47 = 25.88GB. Missing 6 gigs of data, yet it seems I don't have enough space.

 

[svim]

Your phone's internal storage has several partitions, most are protected and dedicated solely to the Android operating system and one of them is set as a general access, data partition for you the user. The user only has very limited access to do anything directly on those system partitions (unless you go through the process of rooting your phone) so basically your 'free space' issue is limited only to that user data partition, with the system partitions being included when you're doing something like viewing the overall storage space even though you don't really have accessibility to do much with them.

 

[today]

The elephant in the room wants to know why cached data is almost 9gb. Clean me.