blocks on floppy disk

[stefan goeman <Stefan.Goeman@siemens.atea.be>]

Hello,

I have a small (probably) stupid question.

Normally, a floppy disk contains 1440 1k blocks. Well, this is what "they" always told me.

When I mount an msdos floppy and I do df -k, I see that the number of blocks are 1423. I simple wonder where the other 17 are??

By the way, when I create an ext2 floppy, I only see 1412 1k blocks, where are the other 28 blocks?

Greetings,

Stefan Goeman.
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