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-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 <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).