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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 OS'es. 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 manpages included in that package for further detail: Use
`superformat' to format all formats except XDF, and use `xdfcopy' to
format XDF.

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