S3fs-fuse: mounting via /etc/fstab

[chrisgo]

Debian 8.3 x 64

Basic mounting via /etc/fstab results in the following error message sudo mount -a. Any ideas on how to debug this further?

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on s3fs#s3fs-test.domain.com,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so.

Mounting via command line works

sudo s3fs s3fs-test.domain.com /mnt/s3fs-test -o allow_other -o passwd_file=/etc/passwd-s3fs -d -d -f -o f2 -o curldbg

_Note: s3fs is doing it's job trying to figure out the endpoint/region, bucket is on us-west-1_

Translating this to /etc/fstab as follows

...
s3fs#s3fs-test.domain.com   /mnt/s3fs-test  fuse    _netdev,allow_other ,dbglevel=dbg 0 0
...

Doing a sudo tail -f /var/log/messages and sudo tail -f /var/log/syslod does not show any error messages.

• It almost seems like sudo mount -a cannot find s3fs?
• Tried sudo apt-get install nfs-common and sudo apt-get install cifs-utils with no luck
• How does the /etc/fstab find the /etc/passwd-s3fs, do you have to specify that in the options?

[nturner]

Do you have the "fuse" package installed?

[chrisgo]

@nturner Thanks for the tip, apparently I did not (duh) so after sudo apt-get install fuse, it works now

I did everything on the README but I guess it doesn't include fuse

sudo apt-get install automake autotools-dev g++ git libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfuse-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev make pkg-config

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
automake is already the newest version.
autotools-dev is already the newest version.
libcurl4-gnutls-dev is already the newest version.
libfuse-dev is already the newest version.
g++ is already the newest version.
git is already the newest version.
libxml2-dev is already the newest version.
make is already the newest version.
pkg-config is already the newest version.
libssl-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[deepeeess]

Installing fuse solved this problem for me as well, RHEL 7.

[dsl101]

This just bit me too, and took a while to track down. Could 'Check fuse is installed' be added to the home page readme in the fstab section?

[pifou42]

Note that for mounting via fstab, using the "fuse _netdev" option is necessary. Else, it doesn't wait for the network connection before attempting to mount, and miserably fails.

Another more global note about s3fs :
if you have locate and/or mlocate installed, you could be interested in adding an exception, so that it does NOT scan your whole bucket.
On my Ubuntu 14.04, I had to modify both my /etc/updatedb.conf and /etc/cron.daily/locate, adding " /mnt/my-bucket-name" to PRUNEPATHS and " fuse.s3fs" to PRUNEFS

I suppose adding fuse.s3fs should've been enough, but I'll check that later. I didn't want 1.4TB of 'cache' to fill up my HDD :)