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).

2010.03.20-243334                                  2010-04-08                              VMWARE-HGFSMOUNTER(8)