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Mtools

Developer(s)	The GNU Project
Stable release	4.0.46  / 21 November 2024
Repository	svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/mtools/
Operating system	Unix-like
License	GPL-3.0-or-later
Website	www.gnu.org/software/mtools/

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.

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

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.

See also

• Disk image

References

1. Alain Knaff (21 November 2024). "GNU mtools 4.0.46 released". Retrieved 21 November 2024.
2. https://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/ Homepage
3. Mielewczik, Michael. "mtools: DOS-Dateien unter Linux verwalten". Linux Intern. 1/1999: 81.
4. "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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