Mtools
| Mtools | |
|---|---|
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| Developer | The GNU Project |
| Stable release | |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | www |
| Repository | |
Mtools is a free software 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][3]
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.[4]
See also
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References
[edit]- ↑ Alain Knaff (14 June 2025). "[Info-mtools] GNU mtools 4.0.49 released". Retrieved 4 July 2025.
- ↑ https://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/ Homepage
- ↑ Mielewczik, Michael. "mtools: DOS-Dateien unter Linux verwalten". Linux Intern. 1/1999: 81.
- ↑ "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
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