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Is it possible to use FUSE with Windows?
There is a FUSE compatibility layer for the Windows File System Proxy (winfsp).
This project seems to be live (as of 2019) - although it looks to be almost entirely a 1-developer show.
Code is ...
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What is the difference from exfat-fuse and exfat-nofuse?
They're two different drivers. One of them is created using FUSE, the other is a kernel module.
FUSE is a framework that allows filesystem drivers to be written in "userspace", i.e. as ...
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Getting `sshfs` working on WSL or finding an alternative
So I have a workaround that you might like. I installed SFTP Net Drive 2017 and then remotely connected to the file system I wanted. I mapped it (via the GUI) as R:\. From WSL, you can then map R:\ ...
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Is it possible to mount a .tar file?
I had problems with large tar files or with tars containing many files, so I created my own alternative to archivemount: ratarmount.
You can install it with pip3 install --user ratarmount. And then ...
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Translate permissions with as sshfs remote mount?
Right, in case anyone sees this later as search result, the answer was:
sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions X:/ /mntX
I had tried both allow_other (which gives every user read and write ...
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Getting `sshfs` working on WSL or finding an alternative
Since I asked this question, Microsoft has released WSL 2 in its Insiders Preview ring. Since this provides a full Linux kernel to WSL, no more workarounds are necessary to get SSHFS to work.
Update: ...
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How to mount an SMB share on Linux as normal user on the commandline nowadays?
GVFS mounts can be used from the command line with gio mount when there is a dbus enviroment is available. The mount points appear under /var/run/user/[uid]/gvfs.
See also the answer to Samba mount ...
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Is it possible to use FUSE with Windows?
Windows Projected File System (ProjFS) allows to create user-mode apps to back virtual file systems. It was introduced in Windows 10 1809. This feature needs to be enabled in Windows Features dialog. ...
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Expose fuse mounted inside a docker container
The solution comes from the post
s3 mounted inside the container. how to expose it to the host?
In this post is described a solution using glusterFS, requiring more
permissions for the container. The ...
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mount and umount behaving differently when run under cron
Here is my complete solution:
First I visually audited the audit.log. To catch the right things and only the right things, I used audit2allow to create a policy and type enforcement rule.
grep mount ...
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What is the difference from exfat-fuse and exfat-nofuse?
From fuse(8):
FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. FUSE also aims to provide a secure method for non ...
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Where are programs that use CUSE (character in user space)?
I'd be interested to use CUSE to make a virtual serial port that connects to an RFC-2217 serial-over-network server. That would be a really good use of CUSE.
See:
Any Linux RFC2217 Client for ...
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Is it possible to use FUSE with Windows?
When MS introduced GVFS they created a new filter driver that's more or less FUSE-alike
GVFS relies on a new Windows filter driver (the moral equivalent of the FUSE driver in Linux) and we’ve worked ...
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How to format a FUSE volume?
FUSE is designed to operate on filesystems in userspace - it says nothing about creating the filesystem representation on a disk the first place - and this would be outside the scope of FUSE - you ...
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Where are programs that use CUSE (character in user space)?
I maintain a Linux kernel-space serial-port-over-network driver, and have been wanting to move it to userspace for 15 years. I've looked into using ptys, but they only provide support for a subset of ...
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Automount sshfs using fstab without mount -a
Based on this ubuntu help page and my tries with Debian 9, I make it work and have right file permissions with this fstab entry :
sshfs#user@host:/remote/path /local/path fuse delay_connect,defaults,...
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Transparent Linux FS (FUSE or similar) that presents encrypted virtual files from unencrypted physical files?
What you want to do could be achieved using a cryptographic filesystem in userspace (FUSE) that transparently en- and decrypts data on the fly like EncFS or eCryptFS.
With EncFS you can create a new ...
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Canceled SSHFS (fuse) mount - cannot remove directory
umount -l remote
-l Lazy unmount. Detach the filesystem from the filesystem hierarchy now, and cleanup all references to the filesystem as
soon as it is not busy anymore. (...
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Risks of removing fuse from Linux (to get rid of .fuse_hidden files)
Short answer
Removing fuse will probably cause inability to mount the filesystem.
FUSE is Filesystem in Userspace which means there is a userspace program that handles all operations performed on this ...
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What is the difference from exfat-fuse and exfat-nofuse?
Your Kernel has a method of talking to hardware. This method (and the kernel itself) runs in Ring 0, which means it's privileged. Filesystem code can contain a rootkit. Moreover, you have to be root ...
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How do communicate between FUSE filesystem daemon process and user application process in linux?
FUSE uses a filesystem API because the whole purpose of FUSE is to provide a filesystem API to the process.
Say you have some program that accesses files. It's going to use a filesystem API because ...
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How to mount FUSE (e.g. unionfs) so that all users will have access to it?
The unionfs executable you used created a filesystem in userspace (FUSE). The process managing the filesystem runs under a specific user (in your case: manager) and other users have no access. Giving ...
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How can I hash/checksum any sequential download, without having to store the whole file locally?
This is not possible. In order to run an a file level operation, such as a hash or checksum, on a remote file, you need access to the remote file. You would either need remote access to the hosting ...
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Why do sshfs and fuse create thousands of file descriptors (unbounded growth) for a Java process?
Apparently, the issue was not related to sshfs or fuse, but rather about the interaction of CrateDB (coded in Java) and GNU/Linux distributions using cgroup v2, as identified by the CrateDB team :
We ...
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Modifying a fusemount while mounted
Workaround
Install bindfs. Then invoke as the original user:
bindfs -o allow_other /original/mountpoint /secondary/mountpoint
The contents of /original/mountpoint should appear under /secondary/...
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OSXFuse mounted directory ownership error with automount SSHFS
In current versions of OSXFuse and mac OS, the name to use for sysctl seems to actually be "vfs.generic.osxfuse.tunables.allow_other".
So the command would be:
sysctl -w vfs.generic.osxfuse.tunables....
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Why FUSE might be considered insecure on server?
This useful comment links to this Web page. Below is an extract from the page:
Security Concerns
Writing and using a FUSE filesystem can have some Metrodome-sized security concerns that may or may ...
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Share mounted samba share in another share
After investigating, it seems I have been affected by a bug as described here:
https://serverfault.com/questions/491464/directories-shown-as-files-when-sharing-a-mounted-cifs-drive
It seems there is ...
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Autofs 770 mount point permission
Have you tried using file_mode and dir_mode option?
-fstype=fuse,uid=worker,gid=workers,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 ://server/share
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ifuse mount iPhone for different users (permissions)
First enable allow_other in /etc/fuse.conf, then specify it in the parameters:
ifuse MOUNTPOINT -o allow_other
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