---
name: "vmware-hgfsmounter"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "open-vm-tools"
version: "2:9.4.6-1770165-8"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vmware-hgfsmounter"
---

# vmware-hgfsmounter(8)

program for mounting HGFS shares

## NAME

vmware-hgfsmounter - program for mounting HGFS shares

## SYNOPSIS

**mount.vmhgfs** *SHARE* *DIRECTORY* \[ -o *OPTIONS* \]\
 **vmware-hgfsmounter** *SHARE* *DIRECTORY* \[ -o *OPTIONS* \]

## DESCRIPTION

This is a console-based mount helper application. It mounts the HGFS share, specified by name, to a local directory. Share names must be in host:dir format.

## OPTIONS

- uid=*ARGUMENT*

  mount owner (by uid or username)

- gid=*ARGUMENT*

  mount group (by gid or groupname)

- fmask=*ARGUMENT*

  file umask (in octal)

- dmask=*ARGUMENT*

  directory umask (in octal)

- ro

  mount read-only

- rw

  mount read-write (default)

- nosuid

  ignore suid/sgid bits

- suid

  allow suid/sgid bits (default)

- nodev

  prevent device node access

- dev

  allow device node access (default)

- noexec

  prevent program execution

- exec

  allow program execution (default)

- sync

  file writes are synchronous

- async

  file writes are asynchronous (default)

- mand

  allow mandatory locks

- nomand

  prevent mandatory locks (default)

- noatime

  do not update access times

- atime

  update access times (default)

- nodiratime

  do not update directory access times

- adirtime

  update directory access times (default)

- ttl=*ARGUMENT*

  time before file attributes must be revalidated (in seconds). Improves performance but decreases coherency. Defaults to 1 if not set.

## EXAMPLES

This command is intended to be run from within /bin/mount by passing the option '-t vmhgfs'. For example:

	mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs/\
\
 	mount -t vmhgfs .host:/foo /mnt/foo\
\
 	mount -t vmhgfs .host:/foo/bar /var/lib/bar

## SEE ALSO

[*vmware-checkvm*(1)](/vmware-checkvm/1.md)\
 [*vmware-hgfsclient*(1)](/vmware-hgfsclient/1.md)\
 [*vmware-toolbox-cmd*(1)](/vmware-toolbox-cmd/1.md)\
 [*vmware-xferlogs*(1)](/vmware-xferlogs/1.md)\
 [*libguestlib*(3)](/libguestlib/3.md)\
 [*libvmtools*(3)](/libvmtools/3.md)\
 [*vmware-user-suid-wrapper*(1)](/vmware-user-suid-wrapper/1.md)

## HOMEPAGE

More information about vmware-hgfsmounter and the Open VM Tools can be found at \<*http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/*\>.

## AUTHOR

Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. \<*http://www.vmware.com/*\>.

This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann \<*mail@daniel-baumann.ch*\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).