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?? They are used for the file-system. The OS needs e.g.some information, on where the different files are on the disk. On an MS-DOS formatted disk, this information is written into the FAT, the file allocation table. This logically takes up some space on the disk > By the way, when I create an ext2 floppy, I only see 1412 1k blocks, > where are the other 28 blocks? Same here, although it's AFAIK not a file allocation table, but the inode table and the superblock backups. Regards, Daniel
