btfs - Man Page
mount torrent files or magnet links as a file system
Synopsis
btfs [options] metadata mountpoint
Description
btfs allows one to mount any torrent file or a magnet link as a file system. The contents of the files will be downloaded on-demand as they are read by applications.
Options
- -v --version
print version
- -h --help
print help
- -b --browse-only
download metadata only
- -k --keep
keep files after unmount
- --utp-only
do not use TCP
- --data-directory=DIRECTORY
directory in which to put btfs download data. will by default use $XDG_DATA_HOME if defined else use $HOME/btfs, or /tmp/btfs if the latter is unavailable
- --min-port=PORT
start of listen port range
- --max-port=PORT
end of listen port range
- --max-download-rate=RATE
maximum download rate (in kilobytes per second)
- --max-upload-rate=RATE
maximum upload rate (in kilobytes per second)
Examples
mounting a torrent file:
btfs video.torrent ~/mnt
mounting a magnet link:
btfs 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:...' ~/mnt
unmounting:
fusermount -u ~/mnt
Bugs
Please report any bugs to https://github.com/johang/btfs.
Authors
BTFS has been written by Johan Gunnarsson <johan.gunnarsson@gmail.com>
This man page was written by Donat Kh. <donat@opmbx.org>