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From: eyager@novagate.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Getting the most capacity out of Floppy Disks.
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 00:11:26 GMT
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When I formated at 1.44M floppy disk and created a new files system on
it, I only got a capacity of around 860K.  That means that almost half
of the disk is wasted to store file system information!  How can I
tweak the filesystem parameters so that I can increase the capacity to
a more rational level without having to sacrifice long file names or
random access to files?

-- Eric