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.https://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/ Homepage

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

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