Mtools
Introduction
This directory contains mtools. Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from GNU and Unix without mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk). In addition to file access, it supports many FAT-specific features: volume labels, FAT-specific file attributes (hidden, system, ...), "bad block" map maintenance, access to remote floppy drives, Iomega ZIP disk protection, "secure" erase, display of file's on-disk layout, etc.
Mtools' configurator file is stored in /etc/mtools.conf
Table of Contents
Downloads
- mtools-4.0.44.tar.gz
- mtools-4.0.44.tar.bz2
- mtools-4.0.44.tar.lz
- mtools-4.0.44-1.i386.rpm (made with Fedora 30)
- mtools-4.0.44-1.x86_64.rpm (made with Fedora 31)
- mtools_4.0.44_i386.deb (made with Debian 11)
- floppyd_4.0.44_i386.deb (made with Debian 11)
- mtools_4.0.44_amd64.deb (made with Debian 12)
- floppyd_4.0.44_amd64.deb (made with Debian 12)
- Spec file for generating an mtools RPM (4.0.44)
- How mtools (>= 3.9.9) calculates FAT size
Mailing list
There is an mtools mailing list at <[email protected]>. Please send all bug reports to this list. Note: You must be subscribed to the list in order to be able to send comments.
To subscribe to these or any GNU mailing lists, please send an
empty mail with a Subject: header of just subscribe
to the
relevant -request list. For example, to subscribe yourself to the
mtools list, you would send mail
to <[email protected]>.
Or you can use
the mailing
list web interface.
Announcements of new mtools versions will also be sent to the list. There also exists an archive of the mailing list.
Documentation
A HTML version of the manual for mtools is available here, and a PDF version is here This manual will only be updated for major releases, or when there is a significant change in it.
Frequently asked questions
Please see the dedicated page.
Third-party software
Graphical front end
MtoolsFM has the basic functionality of a file-manager. It makes use of mtools to allow an easy GUI access to dos-floppies without mounting.
This release includes mmd / mrd support (make / remove directory), progress bars, an improved user interface, autoconf / automake support and lots of bug fixes.
http://mtoolsfm.sourceforge.net/
SCSI access for Solaris
PPSD is a driver for Solaris that handles embedded SCSI-2 and CCS-compatible SCSI direct access drives, a.k.a. hard disks, CD-ROM, WORM and MO drives. Unlike the default sd(7d) driver, it is able to access disks that don't have a SunOS/Solaris "disklabel". Hence, with this driver you no longer need to set the scsi flag in mtools.conf, and you no longer need to install mtools setuid-root.