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Basic usage
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   This chapter describes basic usage of floppies, and gives a few
simple tips for using floppies under Linux.

Disk organisation

How a disk is organized, high-level and low-level

formats

File systems

Which file systems does Linux support

Device names

How floppy drives are named

Identifying disks

How to identify a disk

Nickel tours

Short summaries of the various storage methods

New features

New features of the kernel, mtools, and fdutils