1.44 floppies are really 1.64

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From: Daniel Collins
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:00

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Most people have probably known this forever, but I just noticed that
I can format 3.5in floppies to 1640 blocks (minix fs). I had been 
formatting them to 1440 blocks out of habit. The extra 200 blocks are 
very useful as I use floppies to backup my programming projects.

So, don't short-change yourself with floppy space in Linux.

BTW, I should have worked out that this is possible since Microsoft have
a special format on their 3.5in install disks which lets them put a 1.6M
cabinet file on each floppy. This is to try and prevent copying of the 
disks.

-- 
Daniel Collins,                  daniel@lisp.com.au 
                                          http://lisp.com.au/~daniel/
I'd rather be juggling than doing my programming assignments...

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