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Amiga Old File System
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<p>On the <a href="/facts/Amiga/60B3A9of">Amiga</a>, the Old File System, sometimes also called <i>Amiga File System</i>, was the filesystem for <a href="/facts/AmigaOS/1E2k1fuN">AmigaOS</a> before the <a href="/facts/Amiga_Fast_File_System/loKUGy2Y">Amiga Fast File System</a>. Even though it used 512-byte blocks, it reserved the first small portion of each <a href="/facts/Block_(data_storage)/S3vT7c6N">block</a> for <a href="/facts/Metadata_(computing)/qt35z79C">metadata</a>, leaving an actual data block capacity of 488 bytes per block. It wasn't very suitable for anything except <a href="/facts/Floppy_disk/rShxfuxa">floppy disks</a>, and it was soon replaced. </p>