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BTFS(1) General Commands Manual BTFS(1)

NAME

btfs - mount torrent files or magnet links as a file system

SYNOPSIS

btfs [options] metadata mountpoint

DESCRIPTION

btfs allows one to mount any torrent file or a magnet link as a file system. The contents of the files will be downloaded on-demand as they are read by applications.

OPTIONS

print version
print help
download metadata only
keep files after unmount
do not use TCP
directory in which to put btfs download data. will by default use $XDG_DATA_HOME if defined else use $HOME/btfs, or /tmp/btfs if the latter is unavailable
start of listen port range
end of listen port range
maximum download rate (in kilobytes per second)
maximum upload rate (in kilobytes per second)

EXAMPLES

mounting a torrent file:
btfs video.torrent ~/mnt

mounting a magnet link:
btfs 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:...' ~/mnt

unmounting:
fusermount -u ~/mnt

BUGS

Please report any bugs to https://github.com/johang/btfs.

AUTHORS

BTFS has been written by Johan Gunnarsson <johan.gunnarsson@gmail.com>

This man page was written by Donat Kh. <donat@opmbx.org>