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Re:The Floppy Disk (2011) by jasomill on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:19AM (#37189641)
Pedantically, the PC DOS 3 1/2" HD format is 1440 * 1024 bytes[1], so either 1.47456 MB (SI) or 1.40625 MiB (IEC), though "1.44 MB" was the official IBM designation for the format.

[1] 2 sides / disk * 18 tracks / side * 80 sectors / track * 512 bytes / sector = 1,474,560 bytes = 1440 * 1024 bytes

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Re:The Floppy Disk (2011) by u801e on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:50PM (#37200826)
I remember the free space on a 1.44 MB freshly formatted floppy disc under DOS 5.0 was 1,457,664 bytes. I guess the file system metadata used up 16,896 bytes.
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