Ubuntu – How to resolve “/bin/sh: 1: sshfs: not found” when trying to mount remote drive

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I'm trying to mount a remote drive on a server that I have SSH access to using fuse/sshfs

I created a mount point at /mnt/review/server and created the following entry in my fstab, as per ArchWiki:

me@server:/    /mnt/review/dori    fuse.sshfs    defaults,user,noauto,idmap=user,allow_other 0 0

I've also tried a slightly different entry, based on the Ubuntu documentation:

sshfs#me@server:/    /mnt/review/dori    fuse    defaults,user,noauto,idmap=user,allow_other 0 0

Each time, I just get /bin/sh: 1: sshfs: not found – nothing in the system logs.

This did work back when I was running Kubuntu 14.04 – I've since changed to Mint running on Ubuntu 14.04, and now I get this.

It seems like SSHFS is not installed – but I can't find anything helpful on Google for this message. I've also made sure the the fuse package is installed. I'm stuck for how to resolve this.

Best Answer

You need to install sshfs before you go further.

sudo apt-get install sshfs

Now, you should test that everything is working correctly. You should try mounting your server with.

sshfs -o idmap=user $me@server:/ /mnt/review/dori

If that works, unmount the directory with 

fusermount -u /mnt/review/dori

The use the second line you posted about from /etc/fstab.

sshfs#me@server:/    /mnt/review/dori    fuse    defaults,user,noauto,idmap=user,allow_other 0 0
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