.TH WIMLIB-IMAGEX "1" "August 2013" "@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ @VERSION@" "User Commands" .SH NAME @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-mount, @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-mountrw, @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-unmount \- Mount and unmount an image from a WIM archive .SH SYNOPSIS \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mount\fR \fIWIMFILE\fR [\fIIMAGE\fR] \fIDIRECTORY\fR [\fIOPTION\fR...] .br \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mountrw\fR \fIWIMFILE\fR [\fIIMAGE\fR] \fIDIRECTORY\fR [\fIOPTION\fR...] .br \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR \fIDIRECTORY\fR [--commit] [--check] [--rebuild] .SH DESCRIPTION The \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mount\fR and \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mountrw\fR commands will mount the image in the Windows Imaging (WIM) file \fIWIMFILE\fR specified by \fIIMAGE\fR on the directory \fIDIRECTORY\fR using FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace). \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mount\fR will mount the image read-only, while \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mountrw\fR will mount the image read-write. These commands are also available as simply \fBwimmount\fR, \fBwimmountrw\fR, and \fBwimunmount\fR if the appropriate hard links or batch files are installed. .PP \fIIMAGE\fR may be a 1-based index of the image in the WIM to mount, or it may be the name of an image in the WIM. Use the \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ info\fR (1) command to see the available images in the WIM. \fIIMAGE\fR may be omitted if \fIWIMFILE\fR contains only one image. .PP The WIM image can be unmounted using the \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR command. Changes made to a WIM mounted read-write will be discarded unless the \fB--commit\fR flag is provided to \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR. .SH SPLIT WIMS You may use \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mount\fR to mount an image from a split WIM read-only. However, you may not mount an image from a split WIM read-write. .PP The \fIWIMFILE\fR argument must specify the first part of the split WIM, while the additional parts of the split WIM must be specified in one or more \fB--ref\fR="\fIGLOB\fR" options. Since globbing is built into the \fB--ref\fR option, typically only one \fB--ref\fR option is necessary. For example, the names for the split WIM parts usually go something like: .PP .RS .nf mywim.swm mywim2.swm mywim3.swm mywim4.swm mywim5.swm .RE .PP To mount the first image of this split WIM to the directory "dir", run: .PP .RS @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mount mywim.swm 1 dir --ref="mywim*.swm" .RE .PP .SH NOTES If wimlib was configured using the \fB--without-fuse\fR flag, then the \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mount\fR, \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mountrw\fR, and \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR commands will not work. Also, these commands are not available in the Windows builds of \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR. .PP You can mount multiple images from a WIM file read-only at the same time, but you can only mount one image at a time from a WIM read-write. .PP All files in the mounted WIM will be accessible regardless of whether there is a security descriptor in the WIM associated with the file or not. New files or directories created in a read-write mounted WIM will be created with no security descriptor. Although there is support for accessing named data streams (see the \fB--streams-interface\fR option), it is currently not possible to set or get DOS names, file attributes, or security descriptors in a mounted WIM. .PP By default, changes to a read-write WIM are made in-place by appending to the WIM. This is nice for big WIM files, since the entire file doesn't have to be rebuilt to make a small change. But, if you are making many changes to a read-write mounted WIM, especially deleting large files, it is suggested to provide the \fB--rebuild\fR option to \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR to force the WIM to be rebuilt, or else run \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ optimize\fR on the WIM afterwards. .SH MOUNT OPTIONS .TP 6 \fB--check\fR When reading the WIM, verify its integrity if it contains an integrity table. .TP \fB--streams-interface\fR=\fIINTERFACE\fR This option is inspired by the ntfs-3g filesystem driver (see \fBntfs-3g\fR (8)). It controls how alternate data streams, or named data streams, in WIM files are made available. .IP "" If "none", it will be impossible to read or write the named data streams. .IP "" If "xattr" (default), named data streams will be accessible through extended file attributes, unless this support was disabled when compiling wimlib. The named data streams may be accessed through extended attributes named "user.*", where the * is the name of the named data stream. See \fBsetfattr\fR (1) and \fBgetfattr\fR (1). Note that this is not an ideal interface, since named data streams may be larger than the maximum allowed extended attribute size. .IP "" If "windows", the named data streams will be accessible by specifying the filename, then a colon, then the name of the named data stream; for example, "myfile:mystream". .IP "" Please note that named data streams are a somewhat obscure NTFS feature that aren't actually used much, even though they complicate the WIM file format considerably. Normally, all you care about is the default or "unnamed" data stream. .TP \fB--debug\fR Turn on debugging information printed by the FUSE library, and do not fork into the background. .TP \fB--ref\fR="\fIGLOB\fR" File glob of additional WIMs or split WIM parts to reference resources from. See \fBSPLIT_WIMS\fR. This option can be specified multiple times. Note: \fIGLOB\fR is listed in quotes because it is interpreted by \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR and may need to be quoted to protect against shell expansion. .TP \fB--staging-dir\fR=\fIDIR\fR Store temporary staging files in a subdirectory of the directory \fIDIR\fR. Only valid for \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mountrw\fR. .TP \fB--unix-data\fR By default, \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mount\fR and \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mountrw\fR will ignore both Windows-style security descriptors (which may have been set either from Windows or by \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ capture\fR from a NTFS-volume) and UNIX-specific data (which is from using \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ capture\fR with the \fB--unix-data\fR flag). In this default mode, all files will simply be owned by the user running \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR and will have mode 0777. (Note: they will still not be accessible to other users unless you also specify \fB--allow-other\fR.) If you instead provide the \fB--unix-data\fR flag, these default permissions will be overridden on a per-file basis with the UNIX-specific data when available, and in the case of \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mountrw\fR it will be possible to change the UNIX permissions using the standard UNIX tools and functions. .TP \fB--allow-other\fR Pass the \fBallow_other\fR option to the FUSE mount. See \fBmount.fuse\fR (8). Note: to do this is a non-root user, \fBuser_allow_other\fR needs to be specified in /etc/fuse.conf (with the FUSE implementation on Linux, at least). .SH UNMOUNT OPTIONS .TP \fB--commit\fR Update the WIM file with the changes that have been made. Has no effect if the mount is read-only. .TP \fB--check\fR When writing \fIWIMFILE\fR, include an integrity table. Has no effect if the mount is read-only or if \fB--commit\fR was not specified. The default behavior is to include an integrity table if and only if there was one present before. .TP \fB--rebuild\fR Rebuild the entire WIM rather than appending any new data to the end of it. Rebuilding the WIM is slower, but will save a little bit of space that would otherwise be left as a hole in the WIM. Even more space will be saved if the read-write mount resulted in streams being deleted from the WIM. Also see .TP \fB--lazy\fR Pass the \fB-z\fR option to \fBfusermount\fR, which performs a "lazy" unmount where the filesystem is detached immediately even if it is still busy. However, even with this option, \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR still waits for the filesystem to become unbusy; \fB--lazy\fR will only stop the unmount from immediately failing. .SH IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS Since a WIM is an archive and not a filesystem, \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mountrw\fR creates a temporary staging directory to contain files that are created or modified. This directory is located in the same directory as \fIWIMFILE\fR by default, but the location can be set using the \fB--staging-dir\fR option. When the filesystem is unmounted with \fB--commit\fR, the WIM is modified in-place (or rebuild completely with \fB--rebuild\fR), merging in the staging files as needed. Then, the temporary staging directory is deleted. .PP \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR runs in a separate process from the process that previously ran \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mount\fR, and these two processes communicate using POSIX message queues. See \fIsrc/mount_image.c\fR in the sources for details. .SH SEE ALSO .BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ (1)