Re: Floppies - Actual Question

From	Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Floppies - Actual Question
Date	2025-10-02 21:44 +0300
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On 2.10.2025 11.28, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote:
> Groovy hepcat c186282 was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Sun, 28 Sep
> 2025 04:17 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it.
> 
>>     Fooling around with floppies this week, I know
>>     you can put a MSDOS-type partition table on them,
>>     did it with gparted, but it uses up about 1.2mb.
> 
>    That's very odd! An MSDOS partition table occupies a small (64 bytes)
> part of the MBR (master boot record - the first sector of the disk).
> Perhaps you were looking at the size of th partition itself, not the
> partition table.

The partition table for MS-DOS sits on the very first sector
(track 0, surface 0, sector 1) of the disk. It is part of the
first startup boot program, called Master Boot Record (MBR).

The very limited space on the MBR limited the DOS partition
table to 4 partitions maximum.

-- 

-TV

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                Re: Floppies - Actual Question c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-11 22:11 -0400
                Re: Floppies - Actual Question c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-09 02:56 -0400
                Re: Floppies - Actual Question c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-09 02:50 -0400
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      Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-28 09:55 +0100
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            Re: Floppies - Actual Question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-29 19:27 +0000
    Re: Floppies - Actual Question Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-09-28 00:31 +0000
      Re: Floppies - Actual Question Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-28 11:19 +0100
        Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-28 15:22 +0100
          Re: Floppies - Actual Question Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-09-28 18:07 +0000
            Re: Floppies - Actual Question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-28 19:18 +0000
            Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-28 23:55 +0100
    Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-28 09:53 +0100
    Re: Floppies - Actual Question Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2025-10-02 18:28 +1000
      Re: Floppies - Actual Question Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2025-10-02 21:44 +0300
        Re: Floppies - Actual Question Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-03 00:10 +0100
          Re: Floppies - Actual Question c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-03 00:35 -0400
        Re: Floppies - Actual Question c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-03 00:32 -0400
      Re: Floppies - Actual Question c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-03 00:21 -0400
        Re: Floppies - Actual Question Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2025-10-04 12:55 +1000

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