VMFS6-FUSE(8)

💖 VMFS6-FUSE(8) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the vmfs-tools section 8 girlies 🎀 — this is the page for vmfs6-fuse, and yes it is exactly as niche and exactly as iconic as it sounds. grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

vmfs6-fuse — mount VMFS6 file systems 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vmfs6-fuse VOLUME... MOUNT_POINT

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one or more volumes, then where you want it to land. no cap. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. the vmfs6-fuse program allows to mount VMFS file systems. that's literally its whole job and it does it beautifully. 👑

the VOLUME you wanna open can be either a block device or an image file — so like, a real disk or just a file pretending to be one, both are valid, we don't judge. 💖

but listen: when the VMFS spreads accross several extents, all extents must be given. all of them. every single one. do not leave an extent behind, bestie, that's not the move. 😭

and the MOUNT_POINT? that's where the file system will be attached on the system. that's the spot. that's where it lives now. 🫶

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🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

look at the legends who made this happen, we stan honestly:

• Christophe Fillot <cf@utc.fr> — cf@utc.fr 💖
• Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> — mh@glandium.org 💖
• Weafon Tsao <weafon.tsao@accelstor.com> — weafon.tsao@accelstor.com 💖
• Thomas Ward <teward@ubuntu.com> — teward@ubuntu.com 💖

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• debugvmfs6(8) — go read that one next, iykyk 🧚

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🎀 NOTES 🎀

the little footnotes, in order, so nothing gets lost:

1. cf@utc.fr mailto:cf@utc.fr
2. mh@glandium.org mailto:mh@glandium.org
3. weafon.tsao@accelstor.com mailto:weafon.tsao@accelstor.com
4. teward@ubuntu.com mailto:teward@ubuntu.com

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okay that's the whole page!! and for the cute sign-off: this one's from vmfs-tools, version 0.0.0-patched, dated 04/01/2024 🌸 and it's filed under VMFS6-FUSE(8) because of course it is. slay, bye 💅✨👑