fuse : invalid argument. when mounting.

Question

I am trying to mount a drive of ec2 instance of amazon web server on my virtual linux machine using sshfs. The command I used is as below :

sameeksha@technician:~$ sudo sshfs -i $HOME/Downloads/amazonkey.pem [email protected]:/var/www $HOME/Documents

and the error that I get is :

fuse: invalid argument `/home/sameeksha/Documents'

I have tried to find the problem but I could only find this error occuring when using fuse. But I am not even using fuse here. Using the same command I was able to mount to the drive to my system. But this time strangely it is throwing this error.

Please share your views.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I had this problem (also using an ec2 instance) and I found the answer here: https://www.chrisnewland.com/solved-sshfs-with-private-key-what-is-the-syntax-262

What sshfs takes as parameters is different than ssh. What you need is:

sudo sshfs -o IdentityFile=$HOME/Downloads/amazonkey.pem [email protected]:/var/www $HOME/Documents