Questions tagged [fuse]
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)
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Is it possible to use FUSE with Windows?
(FUSE). Preferably without admin rights. An example would be sshfs, maybe via MSYS?
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Is it possible to mount a .tar file?
The only result of any import when I searched for this was from 2001.
In the intervening decade, have any tools/methods for mounting a tar file as a filesystem (perhaps utilizing fuse) been created?
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Automount sshfs using fstab without mount -a
Please consider following fstab line (line breaks for readability):
sshfs#[email protected]:/home/user/
/home/user/Server/
fuse
auto,user,_netdev,reconnect,uid=1000,gid=1000,IdentityFile=/home/...
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How do I make sshfs work in Debian? (I get /dev/fuse: Permission denied )
I've moved from Ubuntu to Debian on a machine and all my sshfs mounting scripts fail with
fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied
now. Am I missing something simple?
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Getting `sshfs` working on WSL or finding an alternative
My university's CS department has its own server used for development (from here on out, dev.univ.edu). I have SSH and SFTP access to this server, and I was hoping to do some heavy work on my Windows ...
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Reading an encfs volume from Windows?
I've been looking into encfs as a solution to encrypt my personal data. However I want to access this data both on Linux and Windows on different machines (synced through Dropbox). So far all Google ...
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Why is "sudo unmount" required for unmounting an sshfs-mount if it was mounted without sudo privilges?
I have an sshfs FUSE filesystem mounted in ~/mountpoint. I tried umount mountpoint and diskutil unmount mountpoint (on a Mac here) and both failed. I used sshfs -o IdentityFile=<key> user@...
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Is there any scenario where using cat speeds things up?
In Useless use of cat? it is established that, generally speaking, using cat in a shell pipeline with a single argument at the beginning of a pipeline reduces its performance.
Does there exist a ...
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Translate permissions with as sshfs remote mount?
I have two computers on a network, call these Q and X. I want to mount via sshfs X:/ to Q:/mnt/X. So to do this I use:
user@Q $ sudo sshfs root:X/ /mnt/X
This successfully mounts it and allows the ...
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Expose fuse mounted inside a docker container
I'm trying to run a docker image for mounting hubic (online storage) and expose that to the host
What is working so far is container mounting the fuse point correctly (to /mnt/hubic)
When running ...
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FUSE fs without root privileges (e.g. a LD_PRELOAD gateway or a proot plugin)
On a system where I don't have root access and FUSE isn't installed (or I don't have sufficient privileges to create new mounts), how can I start a fuse filesytem (like sshfs or some FUSE-based ...
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sshfs: cannot set file timestamp
Using sshfs with autofs on Ubuntu, I cannot set timestamps on remote files:
$ touch /sshfs/server/some/file
touch: setting times of `/sshfs/sshfs/server/some/file': Permission denied
I do have write ...
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What is the difference from exfat-fuse and exfat-nofuse?
Until now I have never dwelled on the word fuse but then I saw that there is nofuse.
Based on searches I have done in the the internet they don't clearly explain the difference. What is the difference ...
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Where are programs that use CUSE (character in user space)?
cusexmp, the example of CUSE program, works.
Is there real programs that makes use of it?
For example, a thing that just mirrors other character device or thing that allows networked character ...
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How to properly start gvfs without gnome?
I have a Debian testing box with Xfce (no Gnome, no Nautilus). It has all gvfs-related stuff installed, including all backends and fuse interface. But any attempts to gvfs-mount anything (like sftp://....
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