-.TH WIMLIB-IMAGEX "1" "May 2014" "@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ @VERSION@" "User Commands"
+.TH WIMLIB-IMAGEX "1" "August 2014" "@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
.br
\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mountrw\fR \fIWIMFILE\fR [\fIIMAGE\fR] \fIDIRECTORY\fR [\fIOPTION\fR...]
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-\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR \fIDIRECTORY\fR [--commit] [--check] [--rebuild]
+\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR \fIDIRECTORY\fR [\fIOPTION\fR...]
.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
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.
+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.
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.
+\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.
+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.
.PP
-wimlib v1.6.0 and later can mount version 3584 WIMs, which usually use packed,
-LZMS-compressed streams and may carry the \fI.esd\fR file extension rather than
-\fI.wim\fR. However, such files are not designed for random access, so reading
-data from them when mounted may be very slow. In addition, \fI.esd\fR files
-downloaded directly by the Windows 8 web downloader have encrypted segments, and
-wimlib cannot mount such files until they are first decrypted.
+wimlib v1.6.0 and later can mount version 3584 WIMs, which usually contain
+LZMS-compressed solid blocks and may carry the \fI.esd\fR file extension rather
+than \fI.wim\fR. However, such files are not designed for random access, so
+reading data from them when mounted may be very slow. In addition, \fI.esd\fR
+files downloaded directly by the Windows 8 web downloader have encrypted
+segments, and wimlib cannot mount such files until they are first decrypted.
.SH MOUNT OPTIONS
.TP 6
\fB--check\fR
Update the WIM file with the changes that have been made. Has no effect if the
mount is read-only.
.TP
+\fB--force\fR
+In combination with \fB--commit\fR, force the WIM image to be committed even if
+there are open file descriptors to the WIM image. Any such file descriptors
+will be immediately closed, and the WIM image will be committed and unmounted.
+.IP
+\fB--lazy\fR is a deprecated alias for \fB--force\fR. (Unmounts are now "lazy"
+by default with regards to the kernel-level mountpoint, except in the case with
+\fB--commit\fR described above.)
+.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
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.
-.TP
\fB--new-image\fR
In combination with \fB--commit\fR for a read-write mounted image, causes the
modified image to be committed as a new, unnamed image appended to the WIM
archive. The original image will be unmodified.
.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.
+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 rebuilt 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.
+\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR runs in a separate process from the process that
+previously ran \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mount\fR. When unmounting a read-write
+mounted WIM image with \fB--commit\fR, these two processes communicate using a
+POSIX message queue so that the unmount process can track the progress of the
+mount process. See \fIsrc/mount_image.c\fR in the sources for details.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ (1)
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