Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Floppies - Actual Question Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:28:30 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <10b00db$3f68s$1@dont-email.me> <68d800e1$0$16840$426a74cc@news.free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:06:28 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="006f265804a71e95dcb53d2a0efe8829"; logging-data="1112620"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+bdW5ajYdJzKe+dZocskutDTWF5pGlsCw=" User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:gGgLHHqm9zkLEk/NkVfSUca35L0= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75611 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. -- ----- Dig the NEW and IMPROVED news sig!! ----- -------------- Shaggy was here! --------------- Ain't I'm a dawg!!