Mtools

Mtools

Developer(s)	The GNU Project
Stable release	4.0.35[1] / 6 August 2021; 40 days ago (6 August 2021)
Repository	svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/mtools/
Operating system	Unix-like
License	GNU GPL
Website	www.gnu.org/software/mtools/

Mtools is an open source collection of tools to allow a Unix operating system to manipulate files on an MS-DOS file system, typically a floppy disk or floppy disk image.^{[citation needed]}

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

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.^[2]

See also[]

• Disk image

References[]

External links[]

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

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