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 following refers to mtools usage in floppy images.

Copying a file to floppy image: Copying a file from floppy image to the current directory: Deleting all files in the disk image 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.

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