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MOUNT.VBOXSF(1) User Commands MOUNT.VBOXSF(1)

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
and inode info. -1 for kernel default, 0 disables it.
set the "time to live" for the directory cache, overriding the 'ttl' option. Ignored if negative.
set the "time to live" for the inode information, overriding the 'ttl' option. Ignored if negative.
set the max host I/O buffers size in pages. Uses default if zero.
set the directory enumeration buffer size in bytes. Uses default size if zero.
set the caching mode for the mount. Allowed values:
none: no caching; may experience guest side
strict: no caching, except for writably mapped
read: read via the page cache; host changes
readwrite: read and write via the page cache; host
guest changes takes a while to reach the host
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
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