Mounting

Mounting attaches a collection collection to the filesystem so that you can use it. It can only be done on the commandline, using the tag binary.

tag mount myfiles

This will mount a collection named myfiles to your system’s mount directory and fork into the background. Your mount directory can be changed with mount.base_dir. If the collection doesn’t exist, it will be created for you. The result is that you will have a folder available at either /Volumes/myfiles (on Mac) or /mnt/myfiles (on Linux).

Note

If you’re on Linux, you’ll need to make sure /mnt/myfiles exists and is owned by your user, before you mount. On MacOS, this doesn’t seem to be necessary.

You can also mount your collection without forking a background process using the -f flag. In this case, SIGINT will unmount and end the process.

Unmounting

Similar to mounting, you can unmount:

tag unmount myfiles

This will unmount the myfiles collection. The collection argument is optional, so if you wish to unmount all of your collections, don’t specify a collection to the unmount subcommand.