Use Mirror example

Mirror

Mirror is a simple command-line software that consumes the Dokan C API. It simply mirrors an existing folder in a dokan virtual drive by forwarding every IO call received by the virtual driver to the filesystem driver serving the existing folder.

Mirror.exe is embedded with dokan install in %DokanLibrary2%\sample\mirror. You can also build it from the source with Visual Studio.

Usage

  /r RootDirectory (ex. /r c:\test)              Directory source to mirror.
  /l MountPoint (ex. /l m)                       Mount point. Can be M:\ (drive letter) or empty NTFS folder C:\mount\dokan .
  /t Single thread                               Only use a single thread to process events.
                                                 This is highly not recommended as can easily create a bottleneck.
  /d (enable debug output)                       Enable debug output to an attached debugger.
  /s (use stderr for output)                     Enable debug output to stderr.
  /n (use network drive)                         Show device as network device.
  /m (use removable drive)                       Show device as removable media.
  /w (write-protect drive)                       Read only filesystem.
  /o (use mount manager)                         Register device to Windows mount manager.
                                                 This enables advanced Windows features like recycle bin and more...
  /c (mount for current session only)            Device only visible for current user session.
  /u (UNC provider name ex. \localhost\myfs)     UNC name used for network volume.
  /a Allocation unit size (ex. /a 512)           Allocation Unit Size of the volume. This will behave on the disk file size.
  /k Sector size (ex. /k 512)                    Sector Size of the volume. This will behave on the disk file size.
  /i (Timeout in Milliseconds ex. /i 30000)      Timeout until a running operation is aborted and the device is unmounted.

Command line example

Mirror C:\Users as RootDirectory in to a drive of letter M:\.

mirror.exe /r C:\Users /l m

Mount as removable drive

mirror.exe /m /r C:\Users /l m

Mount as network drive

mirror.exe /n /r C:\Users /l m

Mount as read only drive

mirror.exe /w /r C:\Users /l m

Enable debug output stderr

mirror.exe /d /s /r C:\Users /l m

Note: To unmount the drive, just press CTRL + C in the console.