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MOUNT.VBOXSF(8) System Administration Utilities MOUNT.VBOXSF(8)

NAME

mount.vboxsf - x86 virtualization solution

SYNOPSIS

mount.vboxsf [OPTIONS] NAME MOUNTPOINT

DESCRIPTION

Mount the VirtualBox shared folder NAME from the host system to MOUNTPOINT.

mount the shared folder writable (the default)
mount the shared folder read-only
do not create an mtab entry
sloppy parsing, ignore unrecognized mount options

-o OPTION[,OPTION...] use the mount options specified

Available mount options are:

mount writable (the default)
mount read only
set the default file owner user id to UID
set the default file owner group id to GID
set the "time to live" to TID for the dentry
override the mode of all directories to (octal) MODE
override the mode of all regular files to (octal) MODE
set the umask to (octal) UMASK
set the umask applied to directories only
set the umask applied to regular files only
use the character set CHARSET for I/O operations (default set is utf8)
convert the folder name from CHARSET to utf8

Less common used options:

noexec,exec,nodev,dev,nosuid,suid
January 2019 mount.vboxsf