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Filesystem in Userspace, a file system driver technology.

FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is a driver technology that allows Filesystem drivers to run with normal user privileges, as well as provides the option for unique and unusual Filesystem drivers.

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How to enable exFAT in Ubuntu 14.04

I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 and I can't mount my exFAT HDD. I get the following error: Unable to access “SeagateHDD” Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/me/SeagateHDD: Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o…
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what is a .fuse_hidden file and why do they exist?

I have a folder where I transfer home videos from a camcorder to. I find two files in this folder that are not videos... .fuse_hidden0000002c00000001 .fuse_hidden0000002600000002 What are these files, and can they be safely deleted?
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Can't run an AppImage on Ubuntu 20.04

I'm not able to run AppImages on my Ubuntu 20.04. All the permissions are ok (see pic 1) and I have tried the terminal too (see pic 2). The messages in the terminal are dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2 and AppImages require FUSE to run. but fuse…
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fuse: unknown option `defer_permissions'

The following error is given when trying to connect to a remote host using sshfs on Ubuntu (16.04 LTS): fuse: unknown option `defer_permissions' after using the command: sshfs -o allow_other,defer_permissions username@remotehost.com:/…
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fuse: bad mount point `/mnt': Transport endpoint is not connected

I needed to locally edit remote files on my server, so I tried to mount the whole remote file system (/) on my local system with SSHFS like so: $ sshfs username@domain.com:// /mnt -p 22 Then it stuck (cursor blinking, no output), so obviously I…
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How to safely install fuse on Ubuntu 22.04?

I need to install fuse on Ubuntu 22.04. I've tried installing via snap install fuse but that didn't work, so what is the safest way to install fuse on Ubuntu 22.04? Thanks!
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How to fix exfat filesystem

So we accidentally caused our server to go down without a clean shutdown and now df is reporting wrong stats for the external usb (exfat). root@srv1:/backup/usbdisk# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb2 3.6T 2.8T …
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sshfs transform_symlinks is broken

I've been using the same fstab command for a while now: sshfs#user@host.be:/home/user /home/user/vps fuse user,port=22,uid=1000,gid=1000,allow_other,reconnect,transform_symlinks 0 0 And it used to work fine. But on 11.10 it doesn't transform…
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no file save dialog for snap applications

using a fresh ubuntu 22.04 install i can no longer save or download any files in firefox. it did work when i first installed firefox, now it no longer does. File -> Save page as does not even open a window where i could select a destination…
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Filesystem that gives an encrypted view of a directory—the inverse of EncFS

Currently I'm using EncFS to encrypt my directory "confidential" to ".encconfidential" and sync that encrypted directory using an online service (e.g. Dropbox, UbuntuOne etc). However my entire disk is already LUKS encrypted, so the double…
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Auto mount sshfs volume through fstab with password auth

I have a headless server running Ubuntu 12.04.4 that needs to come back up after a reboot without user intervention. There is an existing manual process that involves looking at files on a remote server over sftp and manipulating certain ones. The…
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AppImage not working

I am using a dev tool for working with mongodb. It was working fine yesterday. when I came today I get this error while running the appImage in terminal fusermount: mount failed: Operation not permitted Cannot mount AppImage, please check your FUSE…
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Block-level deduplicating filesystem

I'm looking for a deduplicating copy-on-write filesystem solution for general user data such as /home and backups of it. It should use online/inline/synchronous deduplication at the block-level using secure hashing (for negligible chance of…
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Ubuntu Nexus 7 as USB device does not work

I connected USB cable from Nexus 7 running Ubuntu to my Ubuntu laptop but there is no new USB device found when I run lsusb. Is this function supported?
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How can I make nautilus use my installed FUSE file systems automatically?

Is there a way to have Nautilus automatically use my FUSE file systems to (for example) open ISOs as folders, or archives as folders, or what ever other 'locations' FUSE supports?
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