Mtools is an open source collection of utilities to allow a Unix operating system to manipulate files on an MS-DOS file system, typically a floppy disk or floppy disk image.[2]
The mtools are part of the GNU Project and are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL-3.0-or-later).
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Usage
The following refers to mtools usage in floppy images. (Useful for virtual machines such as QEMU or VirtualBox.)
Copying a file to floppy image:
$ mcopy -i Disk.img file_source ::file_target
Copying a file from floppy image to the current directory:
$ mcopy -i Disk.img ::file_source file_target
Deleting all files in the disk image
$ mdel -i Disk.img ::*.*
The drive character : (colon) has a special meaning. It is used to access image files which are directly specified on the command line using the -i options.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Alain Knaff (21 March 2023). "GNU mtools 4.0.43 released". Retrieved 22 March 2023.
- ^ https://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/ Homepage
- ^ "online linux man page". Retrieved 31 July 2012.
External links
- mtools official page on the GNU website
- Boot disk images for DOS DOS disk images
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