Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

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Commands

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unlock

SCSI drives only. Unlock the tape drive door.

wset n

SCSI drives only. Write n set marks at current position.

Return codes

0 Operation succeeded

1 Invalid operation or device name

2 Operation failed

mtools

command [options] [arguments]

A collection of tools for working with MS-DOS files and filesys-

tems, especially for accessing files on floppy disks without

mounting them as Unix filesystems. The various commands are

mattrib, mbadblocks, mcat, mcd, mcopy, mdel, mdeltree, mdir,

mdu, mformat, minfo, mkmanifest, mlabel, mmd, mmount,

mmove, mpartition, mrd, mren, mshowfat, mtoolstest, mtype,

and mzip.

For the purposes of mtools, all MS-DOS file names begin with a

drive letter and colon, followed by the path. mtools accepts both /

and \ for directory separators. For example, an MS-DOS file might

be referred to as a:/directory/subdirectory/file.txt. If you use the

backslash or any standard Unix wildcards or special characters, put

the filename in quotation marks.

FAT filesystem filenames are normally a maximum of eight charac-

ters long with a three-letter extension, and are not case-sensitive.

Even in the more recent VFAT system, which does preserve case

sensitivity, two files with the same letters in their names, regardless

of case, cannot coexist. Unix filenames that ...