Mtools Explained

Mtools
Developer:	The GNU Project
Operating System:	Unix-like
License:	GPL-3.0-or-later

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.^{[1] [2]}

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.^[3]

See also

• Disk image

External links

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

Notes and References

1. https://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/ Homepage
2. Mielewczik . Michael . mtools: DOS-Dateien unter Linux verwalten. . Linux Intern . 1/1999 . 81.
3. Web site: online linux man page. 31 July 2012.