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Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a loadable kernel module for Unix-like operating systems to make it possible to create userland filesystems, e.g. ntfs-3g.

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bindfs works, but not via /etc/fstab

I can do a bind mount like this: bindfs -u target --mirror=target /home/source/import/target /home/target umount /home/target But it fails, if I try to do the same thing via /etc/fstab: # fstab ...
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Reading fuse mount and filesystem stats

I have an sshfs.fuse mount. I am looking for a way to read mount statistics, e.g. bytes read/written, something similar to what /proc/diskstats contains for disk devices. fusermount has nothing to get ...
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Device /dev/fuse for a container running Rancher in Mac

I'm trying to test in my corporate Mac runnning Ventura 13.5.2 the new container Oracle Autonomous Database I'm running Rancher 1.10.0 I'm following the instructions in https://github.com/oracle/adb-...
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High latency when using FUSE to pass through to tmpfs + swap

I'm creating a shim layer over an in-memory file system (tmpfs) so that I can intercept the file system commands and do extra processing (the end goal is to replicate the writes over the network for ...
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When mounting external disk in fstab via fuse.sshfs it requires password although identityfile is set

Using Ubuntu 22.04. My fstab entry: some_user@some_storagebox.com:~/somedir /mnt/volume fuse.sshfs defaults,allow_other,reconnect,_netdev,users,ServerAliveInterval=15,identityfile=/root/.ssh/id_rsa,...
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s3fs Input/output error

I'm trying to set up a backup system with s3fs and the Amazon S3 service. I followed this this guide and this guide. Tailing /var/log/messages I get: Aug 28 13:37:46 server s3fs:###response=403 I ...
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Is there a good way to allow non-root users to mount arbitrary external USB drives on Linux?

We have a situation where a site office has a couple of Rocky Linux 8 servers and regularly receives large amounts of data from clients. Data arrives on a variety of external USB hard drives and the ...
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How to mount Gluster volume in a systemd-nspawn container?

I am trying to mount a Gluster volume within a systemd-nspawn container. I found two methods to do it from the official Github repo, but I have questions about both methods' security. The CAP_MKNOD + ...
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Mount a SSHFS volume into a Docker instance

I use SSHFS to mount a remote filesystem on my host and I want to be able to access it from inside a Docker container. I mount the remote filesystem sshfs -o idmap=user,uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g) ...
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Automatically mount bucket with s3fs on boot

I use an Amazon S3 bucket to deliver some of my server's content. I was able to mount it successfully, and grant Apache rights over it, but can't get it mounted properly at reboot. I updated my /etc/...
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s3fs does not parse NO_PROXY / no_proxy env variables

I am running s3fs on a node in corporate network which is behind proxy. I am trying to mount S3 bucket on another node next to it. Both nodes are in 10.88.97.65/27 network and should be able to ...
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"portal" and "fuse.portal" meaning in mount system command's output in Linux

In mount system command's output in Debian Linux 10-like OS I have following string: portal on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000) What means this ...
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Linux Debian Google cloud VM instance

I have been trying to mount a google storage bucket on one of my instances. I followed the directions here. This is the error I get. E: Unable to locate package gcsfuse E: Unable to locate package ...
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Forcefully Unmounting Filesystem

Okay, here's the deal: I used FUSE to mount a webdav endpoint as a filesystem. At some point it broke. Now, for the life of me, I cannot unmount it. Any time I try and interact with it in any way, ...
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Any tricks for making sshfs authenticate only on write?

There is seemingly a trick for creating read-only sshfs logins with the read only attribute is enforced by the remote's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. You first create a program ~/.ssh/ro-sftp-server ...
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While accessing Fuse mounted Storage bucket, its showing 403 Forbidden Error

I have a google cloud project. In that project. I have a VM instance. I mounted uploads folder with Google Cloud Storage bucket using fuse. While mounting I get an error like this, Using mount point:...
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GlusterFS Transport endpoint not connected from time to time

I'm using GlusterFS 3.7.9, currently on a single server with 4 bricks. Each brick has 4TB and the volume is set up as distribute only. The volume is mounted on a secondary server and I use it for ...
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fusermount: fuse device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first

I am running an instance on gcloud compute engine. I need to mount a Google storage bucket (which belongs to a different project) to my instance. The instance runs on Debian Wheezy. I have installed ...
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Using a FUSE-mounted directory as a docker volume

I have a mount (/mnt/xyz) which is mounted with FUSE, and I want to use it as a docker volume docker run image -v /mnt/xyz/container-dir:/container-dir But I get the error docker: Error response ...
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SSHFS over a jumphost

I have 3 computers. A, B, and C. A is the one I'm on now. B is a jumphost that I can SSH through from A to get to computer C using ssh -t B_host ssh C_host. What I'd like to do is mount C's file ...
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Mount a bucket to an instance running Windows Server

I have to share out ~2TB of files over VPN to endpoints that need SMB access. Rather than creating a ~2TB persistent disk, How could I mount a google cloud storage bucket and share it from my windows ...
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SSHFS mount that freezes system on network disconnect

i am using SSHFS to mount a volume. But whenever anything causes a network disconnect or interruption my whole system will freeze up. Apps will be slow and unresponsive, and it is impossible for me to ...
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With sshfs, what causes the error "fuse: bad mount point `<directory>': Permission denied"?

I ran across this error while trying to mount a remote file system to my local host using SSHFS. The command I was using was in the form of: sshfs root@remote:/path/to/dir ./localDir I am logged ...
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Docker: 'failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied' as non root user

What I want to achieve is to prepare Docker image in which every non-root user can make SSHF mount. MWE below: Dockerfile: FROM rocker/rstudio:4.0.3 USER root RUN apt-get update && apt-get ...
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Is there an async FUSE filesystem for replication?

I have a low-power VIA x86 PC with one SATA port. I want to backup special files (ie: /var) from the SATA drive on this port onto a USB flash disk, but I don't want a RAID1 or fully-synchronous ...
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Combination of S3 bucket, fuse, rclone mount and incron - not detecting changes

and thanks for reading..... I'm trying to setup a method whereby I have an on-premise Centos 7 server which uses rclone (mount) to mount an AWS S3 bucket as a file system. I've installed fuse to make ...
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Fedora 31 LXC service failed to start "Failed to start FUSE filesystem for LXC"

I'm trying to setup LXD system for test environments on Fedora Desktop workstation but the LXD service just wont start because the dependency service LXC fails. After trying to start the sudo ...
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ntfs-3g Ignore case

I am mounting an ntfs filesystem on a Linux box using the fuse filesystem driver ntfs-3g. I am then doing some operations on the filesystem (git clone to be precise) unmounting and attaching the ...
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How does S3FS (or any other S3 FUSE filsystem) compare to AWS FSx for Lustre + S3

I remember trying s3fs a year back, trying to use some S3 bucket as a FUSE filesystem. I remember it being quite laggy, especially when coupled with git operations on it (an oblivious system architect ...
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Read only filesystem populated on demand

Basically I have a file system that is accessible both by NFS and ssh. I need a copy of this on my local. But I want to pull only those files that I need (basically cache them on demand). Since I'll ...
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Why /tmp is bound in /tmp ? How can I remove this bound

In Scientific Linux 6, a clone of RHEL6, I have the following mtab file: /dev/sda2 / ext4 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/...
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Reliability of (SFTP or WebDAV) with FUSE

I want to mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a network drive on my laptop using FUSE and SFTP or WebDAV. Can I use SMB or Samba? From time to time, I may run a differencing and merging tool (aka ...
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Create a virtual tar file [closed]

The use case I am in mind is to make a backup of some data. I would like to create a tar file, mainly because there are tens of thousands of small files. I use a cloud storage service which basically ...
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How to Change Cloud API access scopes on GCP Compute Engine with out stopping the Instance

I'm using gcsfuse inside Google Compute Engine. I mounted a folder with cloud storage bucket but, unable to create any file inside of it: touch t1 with an error: touch: cannot touch 't1': Input/...
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Should I use GlusterFS for mail server?

I'm planing to use GlusterFS for my mail server. But I read that GlusterFS have problems with small file ( and mail are small files). What's the problems with GlusterFS when come to working with small ...
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How can I limit the bandwidth over an SSHFS mount?

I am transfering large media files to my local machine over an SSHFS mount. I am not too concerned about speed and want to provide a better QOS to other network services and so want to limit the ...
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How to mount a fuse-sshfs file system inside a FreeBSD-12.0p10 jail

I wish to mount a remote data source locally as a fuse file system. This is listed as supported by lsvfs: lsvfs Filesystem Num Refs Flags -------------------------------...
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How to delete .fuse_hidden* files?

I have small Linux server (Debian Squeeze) which runs a Samba server which is configured to share some folders with some windows machines. While trying to delete one of the directories from windows I ...
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ls and find hangs on a folder. What to do?

I have a proxmox cluster with two nodes (s1 and s2). On s2 listing a certain directory hangs forever (like in this question): $> strace -vf ls -l /etc/pve/nodes/s2 [...] open("/etc/pve/nodes/s2", ...
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Mount merged partition at boot, fuse module missing

I have a merged partition from 3 different hard drives with mergerfs. I set it up following this tutorial. To automate the mounting I added instructions in the fstab : UUID=b3c8301c-5d12-4ab1-ab8c-...
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SSHFS mount that survives disconnect

I'm using SSHFS mounts from my laptop to a central server. Obviously, the SSHFS mount is broken after a longer disconnect (eg. during suspend), cause the underlying SSH connection timed out. Is ...
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autofs ssh fuse and permissions issue

I have a mounted remote backup space on a Centos 6 to perform remote backups..which are doing fine.. without issues My /etc/auto.master file: /- /etc/auto.mymount uid=0,gid=0,--ghost My /etc/auto....
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Show bindfs target

When creating a FUSE mount: bindfs -u joe -g users -r /files /home/joe/files After the mount is done, what command can I use to see the target? Eg, how can I see that /home/joe/files points to /...
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Why is mount -a not mounting fuse drive properly when executed remotely (via Fabric)?

This is a weird bug and I'm not sure where it's coming from. Here's a quick run down of what I'm doing. I'm trying to mount a FUSE drive to an Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu 10.10 using s3fs (...
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How to force s3fs mount on boot

I'm using s3fs 1.33 on Ubuntu 9.10 x86. I mount it manually with this command: sudo /usr/bin/s3fs mybucket /mnt/s3/mybucket -ouse_cache=/tmp How can I force the mount on boot? I guess that I have ...
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s3fs: how to force remount on errors?

I use s3fs 1.33 on Ubuntu 9.10. Regularily it gives me errors like this: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32) rsync: close failed on "/mnt/s3/...
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Does GLusterFS / Fuse properly support mmap()?

Background I've been having some file locking issues with running Dovecot IMAP storage on a triple-replicated Gluster Volume. The volume is mounted with the glusterfs type using defaults. This ...
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gcsfuse in Google App Engine flexible custom runtime

I'm trying to use gcsfuse to mount GCS buckets in a docker container deployed in a GAE flexible custom runtime instance. This is part of the Dockerfile: FROM gcr.io/google-appengine/python RUN apt-...
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Is performance of FUSE based applications effected with Kaiser patch in Redhat?

Let's say we have a FUSE filesystem. Will it have a drastic performance impact with the Kaiser patch? According to my understanding as FUSE filesystem runs completely in userspace and hence are less ...
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CentOS 7: sshfs can't find fuse, even though fuse is loaded

When I try to run sshfs, I get the error fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first. I already ran sudo modprobe fuse, but it just returns immediately without any output and the error persists: ...