VMWARE-HGFSMOUNTER(8) Open VM Tools VMWARE-HGFSMOUNTER(8)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.baumann@progress-technologies.net>, for the Debian
project (but may be used by others).
2010.03.20-243334 2010-04-08 VMWARE-HGFSMOUNTER(8)
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MOUNT_MSDOS(8) BSD System Manager's Manual MOUNT_MSDOS(8)NAME
mount_msdos -- mount an MS-DOS file system
SYNOPSIS
mount_msdos [-o options] [-u uid] [-g gid] [-m mask] special node
DESCRIPTION
The mount_msdos command attaches the MS-DOS filesystem residing on the device special to the global filesystem namespace at the location
indicated by node. This command is normally executed by mount(8) at boot time, but can be used by any user to mount an MS-DOS file system on
any directory that they own (provided, of course, that they have appropriate access to the device that contains the file system).
The options are as follows:
-o options
Use the specified mount options, as described in mount(8).
-u uid Set the owner of the files in the file system to uid. The default owner is the owner of the directory on which the file system is
being mounted.
-g gid Set the group of the files in the file system to gid. The default group is the group of the directory on which the file system is
being mounted.
-m mask
Specify the maximum file permissions for files in the file system. (For example, a mask of 755 specifies that, by default, the owner
should have read, write, and execute permissions for files, but others should only have read and execute permissions. See chmod(1)
for more information about octal file modes.) Only the nine low-order bits of mask are used. The default mask is taken from the
directory on which the file system is being mounted.
SEE ALSO mount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8)CAVEATS
FreeBSD 2.1 and earlier versions could not handle cluster sizes larger than 16K. Just mounting an MS-DOS file system could cause corruption
to any mounted file system. Cluster sizes larger than 16K are unavoidable for file system sizes larger than 1G, and also occur when filesys-
tems larger than 1G are shrunk to smaller than 1G using FIPS.
HISTORY
The mount_msdos utility first appeared in FreeBSD 2.0. Its predecessor, the mount_pcfs utility appeared in FreeBSD 1.0, and was abandoned in
favor of the more aptly-named mount_msdos.
BSD April 7, 1994 BSD