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Ownership ignored when mounting vmdk partition

Before I rebuilt my dual-boot system, I used to use unison to sync my Linux/Windows user data. I want to do that again, but this time with Windows 10 in a VM. I can successfully mount the partition, but the mount command is ignoring my ownership options:

sudo vmware-mount Windows10_x64.vmdk 3 /media/Windows-C/ -o uid=1000,gid=1000

Checking the mount, I'm getting this:

/dev/loop0 on /media/Windows-C type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)

Is there a list of what mount options the vmware-mount command accepts? The help for the command is very vague on this.

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The key was adding the allow_other option first:

sudo vmware-mount Windows10_x64.vmdk 3 /media/Windows-C/ -o allow_other,uid=1000,gid=1000

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The key was adding the allow_other option first:

sudo vmware-mount Windows10_x64.vmdk 3 /media/Windows-C/ -o allow_other,uid=1000,gid=1000

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