Mount Amazon s3 Bucket
1) Remove Existing Packages
Before installing any package, first you need to check if you have any existing fuse or S3FS on your server. If it is already existing, then remove it from your server to avoid further conflicts. Use the following command to check if you have any existing fuse or S3FS on your server
CentOS users:
$ yum remove fuse fuse-s3fs
Ubuntu Users:
$ apt-get remove fuse
2) Install Packages
Install all dependency packages for fuse and s3cmd using the below command.
CentOS users:
$ yum install gcc libstdc++-devel gcc-c++ curl-devel libxml2-devel openssl-devel mailcap
Ubuntu Users:
$ apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev mime-support
3) Download and Compile Fuse
Move to /usr/src then download and compile fuse source code. After compiling, add fuse to kernel. In my case the latest version of fuse is fuse-3.0.0
$ cd /usr/src/
$ wget https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/releases/download/fuse-3.0.0/fuse-3.0.0.tar.gz
$ tar xzf fuse-3.0.0.tar.gz
$ cd fuse-3.0.0
$ ./configure –prefix=/usr/local
$ make && make install
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
$ ldconfig
$ modprobe fuse
4) Download and compile S3FS
Navigate to /usr/src, Download and compile s3fs source code.
$ git clone https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse.git
$ cd s3fs-fuse
$ yum install fuse-devel libxml2-devel libcurl-devel
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
5) Setup Access Key
Both access key and secret key of your s3 AWS account is required for configuring S3FS. Replace the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY with your actual key values.
$ vi /etc/passwd-s3fs
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
Make sure that the file has proper permission.
$ chmod 600 /etc/passwd-s3fs
6) Mount S3 Bucket
You can run the below command to mount s3fs.
$ s3fs mybucket /path/to/mountpoint -o passwd_file=/etc/passwd-s3fs
You can also mount the s3 bucket on boot by following below commands.
$ mkdir /tmp/cache
$ mkdir /path/to/mountpoint
$ chmod 777 /tmp/cache /path/to/mountpoint
$ vi /etc/fstab
s3fs#<mybucket> /path/to/mountpoint fuse allow_other,use_cache=/tmp/cache,uid=userid,gid=groupid 0 0
$ mount -a
Congratulations you have successfully mounted s3 bucket on your server.
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