X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fimagex-mount.1.in;h=15c9d922358b33cf3b22e2259cb970a6eac97229;hp=ef9c059171664d2c68fe8895b41ef5c6488f9a79;hb=cb877891bfb9d911db2372444a9990aeb4bc0cdd;hpb=5d52d8c322857646dec623cedc35796dc135e2b9 diff --git a/doc/imagex-mount.1.in b/doc/imagex-mount.1.in index ef9c0591..15c9d922 100644 --- a/doc/imagex-mount.1.in +++ b/doc/imagex-mount.1.in @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH IMAGEX "1" "May 2013" "@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ @VERSION@" "User Commands" +.TH WIMLIB-IMAGEX "1" "October 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 @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ 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) @@ -23,21 +25,16 @@ The WIM image can be unmounted using the \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR command 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. +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 is used to specify the first part of the split WIM, and -the \fB--refs\fR="\fIGLOB\fR" option is used to provide a shell-style file glob -that specifies the additional parts of the split WIM. \fIGLOB\fR is expected to -be a single string on the command line, so \fIGLOB\fR must be quoted so that it -is protected against shell expansion. \fIGLOB\fR must expand to all parts of -the split WIM, except optionally the first part which may either omitted or -included in the glob (but the first part MUST be specified as \fIWIMFILE\fR as -well). +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 -Here's an example. The names for the split WIMs usually go something like: .RS -.PP .nf mywim.swm mywim2.swm @@ -46,7 +43,7 @@ mywim4.swm mywim5.swm .RE .PP -To mount the first image of this split WIM to the directory "dir", we would do: +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" @@ -56,7 +53,7 @@ To mount the first image of this split WIM to the directory "dir", we would do: 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 wimlib. +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. @@ -91,7 +88,8 @@ 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). +\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, @@ -107,9 +105,11 @@ 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 split WIM parts that are part of the split WIM being -mounted. This option is valid for \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ mount\fR but not \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ -mountrw\fR. See \fBSPLIT_WIMS\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. @@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ 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. +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. @@ -165,9 +166,6 @@ 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. Note: As of -wimlib v1.2.1, \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ unmount\fR correctly fails with an error within a -reasonable amount of time (1 second) if the filesystem daemon is abnormally -terminated. +queues. See \fIsrc/mount_image.c\fR in the sources for details. .SH SEE ALSO .BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ (1)