mtools is a package for
Linux that provides
DOS-like commands for handling
FAT/
VFAT floppies. It's a standard part of every Linux distribution.
The commands are modelled after DOS equivalents.
List of the binaries:
- mtools
- mattrib
- mcd
- mcopy
- mdel
- mdeltree
- mdir
- mdu
- mformat
- minfo
- mlabel
- mmd
- mmount
- mmove
- mpartition
- mrd
- mread
- mren
- mtype
- mtoolstest
- mshowfat
- mbadblocks
- mzip
- mkmanifest
- mcheck
- mxtar
- uz
- tgz
- mcomp
- lz
These tools make VFAT a fairly usable choice as a floppy file system - especially if you want to transport files to Windows systems over sneakernet...