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Mtools

Summary

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]

Mtools
Developer(s)The GNU Project
Stable release
4.0.43[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 21 March 2023
Repository
  • svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/mtools/ Edit this at Wikidata
Operating systemUnix-like
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Websitewww.gnu.org/software/mtools/

The mtools are part of the GNU Project and are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL-3.0-or-later).

Usage edit

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 edit

References edit

  1. ^ Alain Knaff (21 March 2023). "GNU mtools 4.0.43 released". Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  2. ^ https://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/ Homepage
  3. ^ "online linux man page". Retrieved 31 July 2012.

External links edit

  • mtools official page on the GNU website
  • Boot disk images for DOS DOS disk images