NAME¶

vshadowmount — mounts a Volume Service Snapshot (VSS) volume

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

vshadowmount is a utility to mount a Volume Service Snapshot (VSS) volume

vshadowmount is part of the libvshadow package. libvshadow is a library to access the Volume Shadow Snapshot (VSS) format

source a Volume Service Snapshot (VSS) volume mount_point the directory to serve as mount point

The options are as follows:

-h

shows this help

-o offset

specify the volume offset in bytes

-v

verbose output to stderr, while vshadowmount will remain running in the foreground

-V

print version

-X extended_options

extended options to pass to sub system

ENVIRONMENT¶

None

FILES¶

None

EXAMPLES¶

# vshadowmount image1.raw /mnt/vshadow
vshadowmount 20260714

DIAGNOSTICS¶

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.

SEE ALSO¶

vshadowinfo(1)

AUTHORS¶

Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>

BUGS¶

Please report bugs of any kind on the project issue tracker: https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow/issues

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2011-2026, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.