AFUSE(1)

AFUSE(1) 💖 General Commands Manual ✨

🦋 NAME

okay bestie, AFUSE is an automounting file system that runs in user-space using FUSE 💅 no kernel drama needed 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS

afuse mountpoint [options]

💜 DESCRIPTION

okay so the basic vibe is afuse mountpoint [options] 🎀 you give it a mountpoint and it handles the rest, literally iconic 👑

✨ general options

• -o opt,[opt...] — slap on some mount options 🎀
• -h, --help — print help, for when you're lost bestie 🙈
• -V, --version — shows the FUSE version info 🧚

🍓 AFUSE options

• -o mount_template=CMD — the template for the CMD that runs to mount (*) 🔥
• -o unmount_template=CMD — the template for the CMD that runs to unmount (*) (**) 💀

(*) when it runs, %r and %m get swapped out in the templates. %r becomes the root directory name for the new mount point, and %m becomes the actual directory you're mounting onto. Both templates are REQUIRED, no skipping! 😭

() the unmount command has to do a **lazy unmount 🫠 for example -u -z options to fusermount, or -l for a regular mount.

🌈 FUSE options

• -d, -o debug — turns on debug output (this one implies -f) 🔍
• -f — runs in the foreground 🌷
• -s — turns off multi-threading, no multitasking today 💅
• -o allow_other — lets other users get in on the fun 🫶
• -o allow_root — lets root in too 👑
• -o nonempty — you can mount over a file or dir that isn't empty 🌊
• -o default_permissions — the kernel does the permission checking 🔐
• -o fsname=NAME — sets the filesystem name 🏷️
• -o large_read — sends large read requests (2.4 only, so it's kinda vintage) 🕰️
• -o max_read=N — sets the max size for read requests 📏
• -o hard_remove — instant removal, files don't get hidden 💨
• -o use_ino — lets the filesystem pick the inode numbers 🔢
• -o readdir_ino — tries to fill in d_ino during readdir 🧩
• -o direct_io — uses direct I/O 🚀
• -o kernel_cache — caches files in the kernel 🧠
• -o umask=M — sets file permissions, in octal 🔒
• -o uid=N — sets the file owner 👤
• -o gid=N — sets the file group 👥
• -o entry_timeout=T — cache timeout for names (default 1.0s) ⏱️
• -o negative_timeout=T — cache timeout for deleted names (default 0.0s) ⌛
• -o attr_timeout=T — cache timeout for attributes (default 1.0s) ⏳

🎀 AUTHOR

this manual page was written by Varun Hiremath <varunhiremath@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but anyone can use it) 🫶

bestie that's the whole tea ☕💖 this page was last updated October 12, 2006 and it's AFUSE(1) from the General Commands Manual, periodt 💅✨