Questions tagged [sshfs]
sshfs is a FUSE file system which allows to mount a directory on a remote system over SSH. It requires the SFTP subsystem being installed (default with OpenSSH server, but not included with smaller SSHd implementations like e.g. dropbear) on the remote system.
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Keeping remote file system connected with disconnects and roaming IP changes
I have a Linux laptop system set up to connect to a remote file system on a dedicated host. I'm using sshfs at the moment.
When I suspend the laptop or connect to a different network, the ssh ...
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Use sshfs session to run commands on the remote
Something has happened with the SSH process on a remote server so that now when trying to connect it rants:
kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
It looks like the SSH daemon ...
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Processes in uninterruptible sleep when the server is not responding
I'm using sshfs to mount and interact with directories and files located on a remote server. The command I'm using is:
sshfs -o follow_symlinks host:dir mountpoint -o reconnect
Sometimes, after a ...
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Can not unmount ssh connection after hibernation or momentary connection loss
I work on a mounted directory to a cluster through sshfs. However, sometimes my connection fails for a second and the mounting stops working. The problem is that I can not umount to be able to restart ...
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how to backup remote location containing hard links, without rsync
I want to backup backintime-data from an internet-facing, remote machine running debian 11 (src). That is the hardlinks-part from the title.
I want to back it up to a (very dumb) NAS (dest) in the ...
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Diagnosing slow sshfs transfer speeds (as compared to http)
I've been trying to set up a way to transfer a reasonable amount of data between two servers (remote and local, both running ubuntu server), including some backups (zipped), pictures, home movies, ...
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sshfs login problem on android - invalid argument
I am login into android phone as usual, but facing problem as below:
Try 1: (failed)
$ sshfs -p 8022 [email protected]:/storage ~/sshfs-mount2 -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/termux-rsa
sshfs: invalid ...
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Unable to replicate fuse sshfs setup, with regular sshfs command
Goal: mount remote folder via sshfs on local system on boot
I have an empty USB attached to my machine: /media/steve/downloads-remote/
There is one folder inside the drive Downloads
The permissions of ...
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how can I detect if my infinite cp command has failed using bash
I have a little data collector, a Raspberry Pi Zero W, which, on boot, mounts a remote folder on mnt using sshfs. The data transfer is effected using a cp command, e.g., cp device file & where ...
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sshfs/fuse set limit/max size for a mounted folder on the ssh server for the connected user with sshd_config?
How can i set a limit size for a mounted sshfs/fuse folder in sshd_config?
With this command i sshfs/fuse a folder from the server to a folder on my machine.
sshfs -o IdentityFile=/home/user/.ssh/[KEY]...
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Mount entry in /etc/fstab with SSHFS and a proxy
I'm trying to mount a remote disk using SSHFS that is not directly accessible, i.e. I need to use a proxy, like local -> proxy -> remote. I'm using only key-based auth for both.
The following ...
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automount SSHFS on Ubuntu 20.04
looks like all the "automount SSHFS" are outdated and not working anymore on today desktops.
If I have a microSD card, that is shared via SFTP on an rpi, how can I auto-mount it on eg.: ...
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Mount root filesystem with user permission using sshfs
I want to use sshfs to mount filesystem folder on my machine (let's say ~/home).
I would like to be able to edit files inside the / folder that got mounted using any editor (for example, edit /etc/...
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bash count files and directory, summary size and EXCLUDE folders that are fuse|sshfs
I need help for a bash script that counts files and folders in a specified directory on a Linux system (Debian), but I want to exclude a specified folder.
I have a main directory named workdir with ...
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SSHFS automount fstab with RSA Keypair asking for password
I have a problem. I added a SSH Server to mount to my server.
I added the following line to /etc/fstab.
sshfs#[email protected]:/home/hd03_00_backup_server/ /mnt/server_backup fuse.sshfs IdentityFile=/...
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List all network storage based mounted filesystems in Linux
My requirement is to find out all such directories in Linux which are mount points for network-based storage/file systems (like NFS, SSHFS, CIFS, SMB, etc)
I did some research, and there is no utility ...
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How to check in bash if a file is currently in use from a sshfs mount
I have a home server being used as a nas. The storage is mounted on my desktop via sshfs. What I would like to accomplish is to write a bash script which unmounts the nas and powers it down at a ...
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sshfs-mounts mysteriously disappear at login time
Status: I have created a systemd service which successfully calls a shell script which in turn successfully mounts a few ssh shares using SSH keys (passwordless access).
Problem: When I log in these ...
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How to execute a script using sudo when it resides on an SSHFS mount?
I am not asking about mounting the SSHFS mountpoint, which is the topic of all the similar questions I found.
My mountpoint (/path/to/sshfs/mount/) is correctly mounted and I can list, read, write all ...
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Mount with sshfs in /etc/fstab file
I am trying to connect to sshfs with fstab on Ubuntu, but the files are not loading.
In the fstab I put the following :
[email protected]:/home/ssh2/SSHserver /home/asir3/Escritorio/SSHclient fuse....
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Restrict access to a directory to just one process and its children
I want to mount a remote directory via sshfs to the local machine in order to use a code editor (Visual Studio Code) to locally edit files on the remote location.
Is there a way to limit access to ...
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Total file system freezes after server disconnection with sshfs
I access a server through vpn (with forticlient sslvpn) and mount a file system on my laptop with sshfs. But sometimes i get randomly disconnected from the vpn. When this happens not only I lose ...
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Why is SSHFS so much less stable than SSH?
If I'm on a very slow and/or slightly hiccupy internet connection, and I ssh [email protected], the connection will mostly stay up. If there's particularly bad lag, output (and echoed input) will take ...
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How to sync two disks - continually?
I have to HDD drives on two different servers that I need to sync regularly. Until now, I've been using rsync over sshfs, first from one to the other, then from the other to the first, but this method ...
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automatically reset sshfs when it locks up, remount fails unless done manually
i have 2 local dirs on my server mounted on a remote server. Local maintains connections with
autossh -M 23 -R 24:localhost:22 user@server While remote mounts with dirs-sshfs.sh
sshfs -o reconnect,...
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Using systemd to mount remote filesystems in user-bus
I'd like to mount a directory from a remote machine in my /home/stew/shared. After installing sshfs and using ssh-copy-id to my remote machine, I can do this:
stew@stewbian:~$ sshfs [email protected]:/...
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openssh/sftp-server virtual chroot does not work
By example, when connect to ssh and execute /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server -d /opt/files can get / root directory from a sshfs connection.
By example: have a test user and from authorized_keys have ...
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How can I [nfs] share a folder that contains [nfs] shares from another computer (nfs is replaceable by other protocols)
I have a number of network storage nodes, and a primary server that everyone connects too.
I would like to export shared folders from the storage nodes , so as to mount them on the primary server. ...
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How to access /proc/ file (procfs) via SSHFS
Using a computer with Ubuntu 16.04 (no update suggestions please) I mounted /proc/ at my Raspberry Pi 3B + (linux kernel version 4.19.88) via SSHFS:
sshfs [email protected]:/proc ~/procAtPi
ls -la ~/...
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Launcher sshfs mount disappears after terminal is closed
I want to make a launcher in my MATE desktop that executes script for sshfs mount:
#!/bin/bash
sshfs login@server:/ /media/user/MOUNT_FOLDER/
This script is called by my launcher:
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-...
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sshfs mount and permission
I'm gonna go crazy!
I've been trying to handle a sshfs mounted folder for several days, but always get a permission denied on file.
The context:
Local Server (L) and a Remote server (R).
Only user X ...
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sshfs mount on login with systemd and unmount on last logout
I'd like to mount (with sshfs) my documents directory - as unprivileged user - on first login and unmount it on last logout (not every logout, of course).
I have key-based authentication working ...
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Resume incomplete disk image with dd over ssh
What I did so far
I wanted to create a disk image of my server HDD partition and copy it to my desktop (client).
I used the following command on the server:
dd if=/dev/md3 status=progress bs=500k | ...
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Browse files through SCP - Works with WinSCP but not from Linux
I can connect to my SSH server using WinSCP from Windows and by selecting the file protocol "SCP", selecting "SFTP" does not work" for this server. I am desperately trying to ...
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Mount sshfs and elevate priviliges (sudo)
I mount a remote directory using sshfs:
sshfs myuser@myserver:/ /path/to/mountpoint
This works just fine.
But I need to acces directories on myserver that are only accessible by root.
root login is ...
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too many files on a network mount causes mount to take a lot of time
If I try to mount using
sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions user@server:/dir-with-lots-of-subprojects ~/projects
then it's taking an unacceptably long time (> 10 seconds, and perhaps even ...
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Improve performance of sshfs for a lot of small files
Mounting a network filesystem backed by sshfs show very slow performance when trying to write a lot of relativity small files.
Is there any options to improve the situation?
The filesystem is mounted ...
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directory on `ls -l` showing `?` on most of the details
I have shared a tmp directory on Ubuntu, using sshfs userid@ip:path_to_dir/rdir /path_to_dir/tmp after this I deleted rdir but when I tried umount /path_to_dir/tmp it was unable to do that.
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need help with sshfs
I can't get sshfs to work, no matter what I try it won't accept my password.
My hostname is netnoob44 and my username is seeder, and I am trying to use it like this.
sudo sshfs -o allow_other,...
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Cannot change ownership in SSHFS/FUSE
I encounter permission denied when trying to change the owner using chown of a folder on mounted SSHFS:
# /etc/fstab
sshfs#[email protected]:/mnt/data /data fuse user,_netdev,nonempty,...
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sshfs appears to mount, but ls & cp on local mount-point hang?
I am FUSE mounting a remote FreeBSD machine with
sudo sshfs -C user@remote-ip:/home/user/ /mnt/localmnt/ -o allow_other -o SmartcardDevice=/dev/hidraw7
to authenticate via an OpenPGP smartcard ...
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SSHFS: Permission denied when opening directory from application even with "allow_other"
I'm trying to use sshfs to open a remote directory in the Spotify snap application on Linux Mint.
sshfs -o allow_other [email protected]:/remote/dir /local/dir
I've mounted my directory using the &...
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Keep sshfs connection when switching from wired to wireless network
On my laptop, I often mount the content of my NAS through sshfs, for ease of access. I usually do so with an ethernet cable plugged in, as it makes browsing the files more smooth than with wifi. But ...
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git over sshfs (with idmap): unable to append to '.git/logs/HEAD': Permission denied
Problem:
I have a git repository mounted via sshfs and cannot commit changes with the following error message:
fatal: cannot update the ref 'HEAD': unable to append to '.git/logs/HEAD': Permission ...
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How can I use a reverse tunnel with sshfs?
I have a local machine which connects via ssh to a remote machine using a middle machine and a reverse ssh tunnel from remote to middle:
remote$ ssh -p <sshd port> -NTR <local port>:...
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Help debugging sshfs error: "fusermount3: mount failed: Operation not permitted"
I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to debug where the issue lies but am unable to find a fix. I am working on a 32bit CentOS system and have installed sshfs and fuse via nix.
When I ...
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'exec' option ignored in fstab for sshfs, need to specify to 'mount' on command-line?
I'm using sshfs in my fstab to mount a filesystem in Ubuntu 18.04.04 LTS:
sshfs#[email protected]:/remote-dir /mnt/local-mnt fuse rw,exec,user,allow_other,noauto,reconnect,...
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Showing a symlink as-is over an sshfs mount
I have a filesystem on the host that contains symlinks (e.g. /foo/bar -> /baz/bar). I'm able to mount the filesystem over sshfs fine, but the symlink is resolved on the client, e.g. (they're ...
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Autofs: /sshfs-dir
The solution to having a dynamic /nfs dir proved to be extremely simple: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/584475/2972
I am wondering if I can do the same for sshfs.
Let us assume that I can run:
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resources mounted via sshfs and fstab on a nginx-server give 404 errors - gone on refresh
Here is a scetch of the situation:
I'm running a nginx server (machine 2) which provides the work of our students. The student work itself lies on another machine (machine 1): our gitolite server.
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