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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-03-28 13:35:53 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-03-28 14:21:55 +0100
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fish: fuse: Add -m dev:mnt:opts to allow mount options to be specified.
This lets you turn on ACLs and xattrs by doing: -m /dev/sda1:/:acl,user_xattr The extra parameter is passed through to mount_options: libguestfs: trace: mount_options "acl,user_xattr" "/dev/sda1" "/"
Notes
Notes: Labels: feature
Diffstat (limited to 'fuse')
-rw-r--r--fuse/guestmount.pod14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fuse/guestmount.pod b/fuse/guestmount.pod
index 338af97b..ea0cb638 100644
--- a/fuse/guestmount.pod
+++ b/fuse/guestmount.pod
@@ -148,7 +148,9 @@ to try to read passphrases from the user by opening C</dev/tty>.
Connect to a live virtual machine.
(Experimental, see L<guestfs(3)/ATTACHING TO RUNNING DAEMONS>).
-=item B<-m dev[:mnt]> | B<--mount dev[:mnt]>
+=item B<-m dev[:mountpoint[:options]]>
+
+=item B<--mount dev[:mountpoint[:options]]>
Mount the named partition or logical volume on the given mountpoint
B<in the guest> (this has nothing to do with mountpoints in the host).
@@ -156,6 +158,16 @@ B<in the guest> (this has nothing to do with mountpoints in the host).
If the mountpoint is omitted, it defaults to C</>. You have to mount
something on C</>.
+The third (and rarely used) part of the mount parameter is the list of
+mount options used to mount the underlying filesystem. If this is not
+given, then the mount options are either the empty string or C<ro>
+(the latter if the I<--ro> flag is used). By specifying the mount
+options, you override this default choice. Probably the only time you
+would use this is to enable ACLs and/or extended attributes if the
+filesystem can support them:
+
+ -m /dev/sda1:/:acl,user_xattr
+
=item B<-n> | B<--no-sync>
By default, we attempt to sync the guest disk when the FUSE mountpoint