MTOOLSRC(5)                 BSD Programmer's Manual                MTOOLSRC(5)

NAME
     mtoolsrc - format of mtools configuration file

DESCRIPTION
     The mtoolsrc files are files consisting of newline separated records
     which describe disk devices for use with the mtools package.  Each line
     consists of the following whitespace separated fields:

           drive     The single letter drive identifier 'A' - 'Z'.

           path      The path to the file or device (e.g., /dev/rfd0c).

           offset    The offset, from the beginning of the device, of the DOS
                     filesystem.

           FAT       The FAT table encoding scheme (either 12 or 16 bit).

           oflags    Any special flags which to pass to open(2).

           tracks    The number of tracks on the device (Note: this is the
                     number of tracks not the number of cylinders).

           heads     The number of heads (tracks/cylinder) on the device.

           sectors   The number of sectors per track on the device.

     Blank lines (lines consisting only of white space) and anything following
     a `#' on a line are ignored.

     Multiple lines may be used to specify multiple drive geomtries for a sin-
     gle drive identifier.  If multiple geometries are specified, mtools at-
     tempts to initialize the drive with them in the order they are found in
     the file.  The first one to succeed is used; if none succeed, an error is
     returned.

SEE ALSO
     mattrib(1),  mcd(1),  mdel(1),  mformat(1),  mrd(1),  mren(1),  mtype(1),
      mcopy(1),  mdir(1),  mlabel(1),  mmd(1),  mread(1),  mwrite(1)

BSDI BSD/386                    March 26, 1993                               1