minfo

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 29Aug09
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minfo - print the parameters of a MSDOS filesystem

 

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Description

The minfo command prints the parameters of a Dos filesystem, such as number of sectors, heads and cylinders. It also prints an mformat command line which can be used to create a similar Dos filesystem on another media. However, this doesn't work with 2m or Xdf media, and with Dos 1.0 filesystems 

minfo drive:

 

Mlabel supports the following option:

v 
Prints a hexdump of the bootsector, in addition to the other information

 

See Also

Mtools' texinfo doc  

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