UML_MOUNT

NAME

SYNOPSIS

uml_mount [mount-point] [options]  

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the uml_mount command.

This command uses the FUSE (File system in USErspace) libraries and invokes the FUSE_MOUNT function which expects a mount point and some parameters as arguments.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. For a practical example, please refer to the link below.

uml_mount is used to mount UMLFS file system.  

ARGUMENTS

mount-point

This is the mount point where to mount the UMLFS file system with.

[options]

These are the other options accepted by the 'fuse_mount' function.

-h

The "-h" option prints the help.

-V

The "-V" option prints the version.

-o opt,[opt...]

The "-o" option allows to provide further mount (only, not un-mount) option(s) to the command line.

-d -o debug

The "-d" option enable the debug output. It implies "-f".

-f

The "-f" option foregrounds the operation.

-s

The "-s" options disable multi-threaded operation.

-o allow_other

The "-o allow_other" option allows access to other users.

-o allow_root

The "-o allow_root" option allows access to root.

-o nonempty

The "-o nonempty" option allows mounts over non-empty file/dir.

-o default_permissions

The "-o default_permissions" enables permission checking by kernel.

-o fsname=NAME

The "-o fsname=NAME" option sets file system name.

-o large_read

The "-o large_read" option issues large read requests (2.4 only).

-o max_read=N

The "-o max_read=N" option sets the maximum size of read requests.

SEE ALSO

The HostFs (link to URL http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/new/hostfs.html) usage explanation within the User-Mode-Linux Web Site  

AUTHOR

uml_mount was written by Jeff Dike.

This manual page was written by Stefano Melchior (stefano.melchior@openlabs.it) for the Debian GNU/Linux system, based on material in the Official User Mode Linux Web Site.

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