Re: blocks on floppy disk

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Stefan, On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > 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??

Re: blocks on floppy disk

2000-10-16 Thread Nate Amsden
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 re

blocks on floppy disk

2000-10-16 Thread stefan goeman
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 creat