FUSERMOUNT3(1) Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) FUSERMOUNT3(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

**fusermount3** - mount and unmount FUSE filesystems

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**fusermount3** \[*OPTIONS*] *MOUNTPOINT*

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. It provides a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations.

**fusermount3** is a program to mount and unmount FUSE filesystems. It should be called directly only for unmounting FUSE file systems. To allow mounting and unmounting by unprivileged users, **fusermount3** needs to be installed set-uid root.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

[-h](#h)

print help.

[-V](#V)

print version.

[-o *OPTION*\[,*OPTION*...\]](#o)

mount options.

[-u](#u)

unmount.

[-q](#q)

quiet.

[-z](#z)

lazy unmount.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[*mount*(8)](/man/os/fuse3/mount.8), [*mount.fuse3*(8)](/man/os/fuse3/mount.fuse3.8), [*fuse*(4)](/man/os/fuse3/fuse.4),

# [HOMEPAGE](#HOMEPAGE)

More information about fusermount3 and the FUSE project can be found at <*https://github.com/libfuse/*>.

# [AUTHORS](#AUTHORS)

FUSE is currently maintained by Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>

The original author of FUSE is Miklos Szeredi <*miklos@szeredi.hu*>.

This manual page was originally written by Daniel Baumann <*daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net*>.

2011-10-23 2.8.6

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Document: fusermount3(1) from fuse3 3.18.3-r1 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse.git