diff --git a/cmd/run.go b/cmd/run.go
index cfc95cb..419fe46 100644
--- a/cmd/run.go
+++ b/cmd/run.go
@@ -33,10 +33,33 @@ import (
 var runCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   "run",
 	Short: "Start a VM and expose an FTP file share.",
-	Args:  cobra.ExactArgs(3),
+	Args:  cobra.RangeArgs(1, 3),
 	Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
-		vmMountDevName := args[1]
-		fsType := args[2]
+		var luksContainerDevice string
+
+		vmMountDevName := "vdb"
+
+		if luksContainerFlag != "" {
+			if luksContainerEntireDriveFlag {
+				slog.Error("--luks-container and --luks-container-entire-drive (-c) cannot be both specified at once")
+				os.Exit(1)
+			}
+
+			luksContainerDevice = luksContainerFlag
+		} else if luksContainerEntireDriveFlag {
+			luksContainerDevice = vmMountDevName
+		}
+
+		if len(args) > 1 {
+			vmMountDevName = args[1]
+		} else if luksContainerDevice != "" {
+			slog.Error("Cannot use the default (entire) device with a LUKS container. Please specify the in-VM device name to mount as a second positional argument.")
+		}
+
+		var fsTypeOverride string
+		if len(args) > 2 {
+			fsTypeOverride = args[2]
+		}
 
 		newBackendFunc := share.GetBackend(shareBackendFlag)
 		if newBackendFunc == nil {
@@ -61,7 +84,7 @@ var runCmd = &cobra.Command{
 			os.Exit(1)
 		}
 
-		if (luksFlag || luksContainerFlag != "") && !allowLUKSLowMemoryFlag {
+		if (luksFlag || luksContainerDevice != "") && !allowLUKSLowMemoryFlag {
 			if vmMemAllocFlag < defaultMemAllocLUKS {
 				if vmMemAllocFlag != defaultMemAlloc {
 					slog.Warn("Enforcing minimum LUKS memory allocation. Please add --allow-luks-low-memory to disable this.", "min", vmMemAllocFlag, "specified", vmMemAllocFlag)
@@ -72,13 +95,18 @@ var runCmd = &cobra.Command{
 		}
 
 		os.Exit(runVM(args[0], func(ctx context.Context, i *vm.VM, fm *vm.FileManager, tapCtx *share.NetTapRuntimeContext) int {
-			slog.Info("Mounting the device", "dev", vmMountDevName, "fs", fsType, "luks", luksFlag)
+			fsToLog := "<auto>"
+			if fsTypeOverride != "" {
+				fsToLog = fsTypeOverride
+			}
+
+			slog.Info("Mounting the device", "dev", vmMountDevName, "fs", fsToLog, "luks", luksFlag)
 
 			err := fm.Mount(vmMountDevName, vm.MountOptions{
-				LUKSContainerPreopen: luksContainerFlag,
+				LUKSContainerPreopen: luksContainerDevice,
 
-				FSType: fsType,
-				LUKS:   luksFlag,
+				FSTypeOverride: fsTypeOverride,
+				LUKS:           luksFlag,
 			})
 			if err != nil {
 				slog.Error("Failed to mount the disk inside the VM", "error", err.Error())
@@ -129,19 +157,21 @@ var runCmd = &cobra.Command{
 }
 
 var (
-	luksFlag               bool
-	luksContainerFlag      string
-	allowLUKSLowMemoryFlag bool
-	shareListenIPFlag      string
-	ftpExtIPFlag           string
-	shareBackendFlag       string
-	smbUseExternAddrFlag   bool
-	debugShellFlag         bool
+	luksFlag                     bool
+	luksContainerFlag            string
+	luksContainerEntireDriveFlag bool
+	allowLUKSLowMemoryFlag       bool
+	shareListenIPFlag            string
+	ftpExtIPFlag                 string
+	shareBackendFlag             string
+	smbUseExternAddrFlag         bool
+	debugShellFlag               bool
 )
 
 func init() {
 	runCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&luksFlag, "luks", "l", false, "Use cryptsetup to open a LUKS volume (password will be prompted).")
 	runCmd.Flags().StringVar(&luksContainerFlag, "luks-container", "", `Specifies a device path (without "dev/" prefix) to preopen as a LUKS container (password will be prompted). Useful for accessing LVM partitions behind LUKS.`)
+	runCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&luksContainerEntireDriveFlag, "luks-container-entire-drive", "c", false, `Similar to --luks-container, but this assumes that the entire passed-through volume is a LUKS container (password will be prompted).`)
 	runCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&allowLUKSLowMemoryFlag, "allow-luks-low-memory", false, "Allow VM memory allocation lower than 2048 MiB when LUKS is enabled.")
 	runCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&debugShellFlag, "debug-shell", false, "Start a VM shell when the network file share is active.")
 
diff --git a/cmd/utils.go b/cmd/utils.go
index c13e395..b87f75e 100644
--- a/cmd/utils.go
+++ b/cmd/utils.go
@@ -286,8 +286,6 @@ func getDevicePassthroughConfig(val string) (*vm.PassthroughConfig, error) {
 
 		slog.Warn("RISK WARNING: Skipping device block size detection and using the default of 512 bytes. Please use this ONLY to recover data from disks with filesystem that were locked to emulated 512-byte block size.")
 
-		// TODO: Remove the need to specify the FS type manually.
-
 		devPath := filepath.Clean(valSplit[1])
 
 		err := osspecifics.CheckValidDevicePath(devPath)
diff --git a/utils/validations.go b/utils/validations.go
index e69b7ad..01752c2 100644
--- a/utils/validations.go
+++ b/utils/validations.go
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ func ClearUnprintableChars(s string, allowNewlines bool) string {
 	}, s)
 }
 
+var fsTypeRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9]+$`)
+
+func ValidateFsType(s string) bool {
+	return fsTypeRegex.MatchString(s)
+}
+
 var devNameRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9a-z_-]+$`)
 
 func ValidateDevName(s string) bool {
diff --git a/vm/filemanager.go b/vm/filemanager.go
index 73f3fff..61882d0 100644
--- a/vm/filemanager.go
+++ b/vm/filemanager.go
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ func (fm *FileManager) Lsblk() ([]byte, error) {
 type MountOptions struct {
 	LUKSContainerPreopen string
 
-	FSType string
-	LUKS   bool
+	FSTypeOverride string
+	LUKS           bool
 }
 
 func (fm *FileManager) luksOpen(sc *ssh.Client, fullDevPath string, luksDMName string) error {
@@ -186,8 +186,14 @@ func (fm *FileManager) Mount(devName string, mo MountOptions) error {
 	// Windows, but we're targeting a Linux VM.)
 	fullDevPath := "/dev/" + devName
 
-	if mo.FSType == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("fs type is empty")
+	var fsOverride string
+
+	if mo.FSTypeOverride != "" {
+		if !utils.ValidateFsType(mo.FSTypeOverride) {
+			return fmt.Errorf("bad fs type override (contains illegal characters)")
+		}
+
+		fsOverride = mo.FSTypeOverride
 	}
 
 	sc, err := fm.vm.DialSSH()
@@ -228,7 +234,13 @@ func (fm *FileManager) Mount(devName string, mo MountOptions) error {
 		fullDevPath = "/dev/mapper/" + luksDMName
 	}
 
-	_, err = sshutil.RunSSHCmd(fm.vm.ctx, sc, "mount -t "+shellescape.Quote(mo.FSType)+" "+shellescape.Quote(fullDevPath)+" /mnt")
+	cmd := "mount "
+	if fsOverride != "" {
+		cmd += "-t " + shellescape.Quote(fsOverride) + " "
+	}
+	cmd += shellescape.Quote(fullDevPath) + " /mnt"
+
+	_, err = sshutil.RunSSHCmd(fm.vm.ctx, sc, cmd)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "run mount cmd")
 	}