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Re: blocks on floppy disk



stefan goeman wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a small (probably) stupid question.
> 
> Normally, a floppy disk contains 1440 1k blocks. Well, this is what "they" always told me.

most/all 1.44MB disks are actually 2MB disks, the extra space is usually
used for the overhead of the filesystem. i remember tools for dos called
2M (i think) that could turn a 1.44MB formatted floppy into a 1.88MB or
if you felt daring i think it could go to 1.93MB.

so available space is dependent on the system ..

nate

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