---
name: "fusermount3"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "fuse3"
version: "3.18.3-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/fusermount3"
---

# fusermount3(1)

mount and unmount FUSE filesystems

## NAME

**fusermount3** - mount and unmount FUSE filesystems

## SYNOPSIS

**fusermount3** \[*OPTIONS*\] *MOUNTPOINT*

## DESCRIPTION

Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. It provides a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations.

**fusermount3** is a program to mount and unmount FUSE filesystems. It should be called directly only for unmounting FUSE file systems. To allow mounting and unmounting by unprivileged users, **fusermount3** needs to be installed set-uid root.

## OPTIONS

- \-h

  print help.

- \-V

  print version.

- \-o *OPTION*\[,*OPTION*...\]

  mount options.

- \-u

  unmount.

- \-q

  quiet.

- \-z

  lazy unmount.

## SEE ALSO

[*mount*(8)](/mount/8.md), [*mount.fuse3*(8)](/mount.fuse3/8.md), [*fuse*(4)](/fuse/4.md),

## HOMEPAGE

More information about fusermount3 and the FUSE project can be found at \<*https://github.com/libfuse/*\>.

## AUTHORS

FUSE is currently maintained by Nikolaus Rath \<Nikolaus@rath.org\>

The original author of FUSE is Miklos Szeredi \<*miklos@szeredi.hu*\>.

This manual page was originally written by Daniel Baumann \<*daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net*\>.