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-hgfsclient(1)
vmware-toolbox-cmd(1)
vmware-xferlogs(1)
libguestlib(3)
libvmtools(3)
vmware-user-suid-wrapper(1)
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 <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).