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(1)
vmware-toolbox-cmd(1)
vmware-user(1)
vmware-xferlogs(1)
libguestlib(3)
libvmtools(3)
vmware-guestd(8)
vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8)
vmblock(9)
vmci(9)
vmhgfs(9)
vmmemctl(9)
vmsock(9)
vmsync(9)
vmxnet(9)
vmxnet3(9)
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 <daniel@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
others).