vmware-hgfsmounter - program for mounting HGFS shares
mount.vmhgfs SHARE DIRECTORY [ -o
OPTIONS ]
vmware-hgfsmounter SHARE DIRECTORY [ -o
OPTIONS ]
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.
- 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.
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
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More information about vmware-hgfsmounter and the Open VM Tools can be found at
<
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.
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).