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mtools: high capacity formats

 
 2.7 high capacity formats
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 Mtools supports a number of formats which allow to store more data on
 disk as usual. Due to different operating system abilities, these
 formats are not supported on all operating systems. Mtools recognizes
 these formats transparently where supported.
 
    In order to format these disks, you need to use an operating system
 specific tool. For Linux, suitable floppy tools can be found in the
 `fdutils' package at the following locations~:
      `ftp://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils/'.
      `ftp://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/fdutils-*'
 
    See the manual pages included in that package for further detail: Use
 `superformat' to format all formats except XDF, and use `xdfcopy' to
 format XDF.

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· more sectors      Putting more sectors per track on the disk
· bigger sectors    Use bigger sectors to save header space
· 2m                Use a standard first track
· XDF               OS/2's eXtended density format
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