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From: cs00chs@unccvax.uncc.edu (charles spell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: 1.44 drives (3.5")
Keywords: size
Message-ID: <2661@unccvax.uncc.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 90 00:56:22 GMT
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
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How do I use all 1.44Kb's of these 3.5" High density disks?

mkfs(1M) and dd(1) seems to think that a formatted 1.44Kb drive is only
720Kb big. dos AND Norton Utilities say that the drive is 1440 blocks
									               (2880 sectors)

The following output led me to this conclusion:

dd if=/dev/at1 of=/dev/null bs=1024
records in 1200+0
records out 1200+0

mkfs /dev/at1 1440
mkfs: filesystem not big enough (this msg is paraphrased).

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