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[โ€“] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The floppy disk format is based on the FAT12 file system.

https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~johnsojr/2012-13/fall/cs370/resources/UnderstandingFAT12.pdf

And with enough creative tweaks to that file system, you can get DMF 1.68MB format, and if you think a bit outside the box and erase the redundant secondary FAT table and settle on a max of only 16 files on the disk, you can squeeze a few more kilobytes out of that even.

I actually made a number of custom modded blank disk images with more storage space, I might dig out the full specs of all the variants later.