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

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 <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).