mount.vboxsf(8)

mount.vboxsf8

X86 virtualization solution

Usage

mount.vboxsf [OPTIONS] NAME MOUNTPOINT

Overview

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

-w

mount the shared folder writable (the default)

-r

mount the shared folder read-only

-n

do not create an mtab entry

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

Available mount options are:

rw

mount writable (the default)

ro

mount read only

uid=UID

set the default file owner user id to UID

gid=GID

set the default file owner group id to GID

ttl=TTL

set the "time to live" to TID for the dentry

dmode=MODE

override the mode of all directories to (octal) MODE

fmode=MODE

override the mode of all regular files to (octal) MODE

umask=UMASK

set the umask to (octal) UMASK

dmask=UMASK

set the umask applied to directories only

fmask=UMASK

set the umask applied to regular files only

iocharset CHARSET

use the character set CHARSET for I/O operations (default set is utf8)

convertcp CHARSET

convert the folder name from CHARSET to utf8

Less common used options:

noexec,exec,nodev,dev,nosuid,suid

Releases

3 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8

From virtualbox-guest-utils 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.