minfo(1)

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version 4.0.49 · 8 versions
, in alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 minfo — bestie's guide to peeking at a MSDOS filesystem 💖

okay so real quick, this is minfo(1), a General Commands Manual situation, and it's about the minfo command. sit with me, we're doing this 💅

🚨 NOTE OF WARNING 🚨

ngl bestie, this manpage was automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation, so it might not be entirely accurate or complete 😭 fr fr. See the end of this man page for the deets on how to view the real texinfo doc.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so the minfo command prints the parameters of a MS-DOS file system — like the number of sectors, heads and cylinders 🎀 iconic behavior honestly.

It ALSO prints an mformat command line which you can use to create a similar MS-DOS file system on another media 🔥 obsessed. BUT — and this is the important part — this doesn't work with 2m or XDF media, and it doesn't work with MS-DOS 1.0 file systems 💀 so don't come for me if that's your vibe.

Here's the whole vibe of it:

minfo drive:

Minfo supports the following option:

  • v — Prints a hexdump of the boot sector, in addition to the other information 👑 hexdump AND the regular info? we love a multitasker.

🌈 See Also 🌈

Mtools' texinfo doc 🦋 (yes that's the whole cross-reference, go look at it)

📖 Viewing the texi doc 📖

So here's the tea ☕ — this manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation. But the process is only approximative, and some items — like crossreferences, footnotes and indices — are lost in this translation process 😭. Indeed, these items have no appropriate representation in the manpage format. Moreover, not all information has been translated into the manpage version. Thus I strongly advise you to use the original texinfo doc, periodt. See the end of this manpage for instructions how to view the texinfo doc.

  • To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the following commands:
./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi
  • To generate a html copy, run:
./configure; make html

A premade html can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/manual/mtools.html 🫶

  • To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), run:
./configure; make info

The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html 💖. Indeed, in the info version certain examples are difficult to read due to the quoting conventions used in info 🙈.

fr fr, go read the texinfo doc, it's giving main character energy and this manpage is just the group chat recap 💜

k bye bestie, this was mtools-4.0.49 from 14Jun25, and that's the minfo(1) page, slay ✨🎀🦋

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