debian man page for vmware-hgfsmounter

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)