mmount(1)

💾 mmount — mount an MSDOS disk 💾

ok so bestie, welcome to the mmount(1) page, living in the General Commands Manual section. buckle up, it's short but it's mighty. 🎀

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⚠️ Note of warning ⚠️

ok first things first, and I need you to actually read this part: this manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation, and it may not be entirely accurate or complete. like, the vibes are there but the details might be fuzzy. 👀

the page says to see the end of this man page for the deets, so like... scroll down, bestie.

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✨ Description ✨

so the mmount command is what you use to mount an MS-DOS disk. that's the whole assignment. 💅

heads up though: it's only available on Linux, because it's only useful if the OS kernel allows configuration of the disk geometry. no geometry-config permission, no mmount. that's just the rules. 🙈

its syntax is:

mmount msdosdrive [mountargs]

here's the tea on what it actually does, step by step, no cap:

• Mmount reads the boot sector of an MS-DOS disk 📖
• then it configures the drive geometry 📐
• and finally it mounts it, passing mountargs straight through to mount 🫶

and now the important little details:

• if no mount arguments are specified, the name of the device is used. that's the default, periodt.
• if the disk is write protected, it is automatically mounted read only. queen behavior honestly, it protects you from yourself. 👑

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🔗 See Also 🔗

• Mtools' texinfo doc

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📚 Viewing the texi doc 📚

ok so, again: this manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation. but the process is only approximative (their word, not mine 😭), 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. and it's not just those: not all information has been translated into the manpage version. so yeah. 💀

thus, they strongly advise you to use the original texinfo doc. see the end of this manpage for instructions on how to view the texinfo doc.

so here's how you go look at the real thing, depending on what format you want:

• 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

and ngl, the tea here is that the texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html. because in the info version, certain examples are difficult to read due to the quoting conventions used in info. so like, choose your format with intention bestie. 🌸

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and that's the whole page!! this was written from the <strong>mtools-4.0.49</strong> documentation, dated <strong>14Jun25</strong> — that's the version and the date, mwah. 💖 stay mounted, stay read-only when write protected, and go read the texinfo doc fr fr. 🦋✨