Installing s3fs on Ubuntu

Installing s3fs on Ubuntu

apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev libfuse-dev \
                comerr-dev libfuse2 libidn11-dev libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev \
                libselinux1-dev libsepol1-dev pkg-config fuse-utils sshfs curl

mkdir ~/downloads
cd ~/downloads

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/files/fuse-2.X/2.8.6/fuse-2.8.6.tar.gz/download
mv download fuse-2.8.6.tar.gz
tar -xvzf fuse-2.8.6.tar.gz 
cd fuse-2.8.6
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

cd ~/downloads

wget http://s3fs.googlecode.com/files/s3fs-1.61.tar.gz
tar -xvzf s3fs-1.61.tar.gz 
cd s3fs-1.61
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Creating the password file and setting permissions

emacs ~/.passwd-s3fs

Format should be like this:

accessKeyId:secretAccessKey

s3fs requires that we have sane permissions on this file

chmod go-r .passwd-s3fs

Mounting our S3 bucket

mkdir /mnt/bucketname
s3fs bucketname /mnt/bucketname