Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: mountpoint path already exists:

[devraj_kanti]

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Not able to mount a S3 bucket to a subdirectory under C Drive in a Windows Server EC2 instance. Version of WinFsp = 2.0.23075

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

PS D:\Code\MountS3_PS_BAT> rclone version
rclone v1.66.0

• os/version: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 21H2 (64 bit)
• os/kernel: 10.0.20348.2461 (x86_64)
• os/type: windows
• os/arch: amd64
• go/version: go1.22.1
• go/linking: static
• go/tags: cmount
  PS D:\Code\MountS3_PS_BAT>

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

AWS

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone mount aws_s3:/testing-bucket-name C:\tmp\mount

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

C:\Users\user1>rclone config redacted
[aws_s3]
type = s3
provider = AWS
env_auth = true
region = eu-west-1
acl = authenticated-read
location_constraint = eu-west-1

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

C:\Users\user1>rclone mount aws_s3:/testing-bucket-name C:\tmp\mount -vv
2024/07/13 00:06:02 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.66.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "mount" "aws_s3:/testing-bucket-name" "C:\\tmp\\mount" "-vv"]
2024/07/13 00:06:02 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "aws_s3:/testing-bucket-name"
2024/07/13 00:06:02 DEBUG : Using config file from "C:\\Users\\user1\\AppData\\Roaming\\rclone\\rclone.conf"
2024/07/13 00:06:02 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "aws_s3:/testing-bucket-name" to be canonical "aws_s3:testing-bucket-name"
2024/07/13 00:06:02 INFO  : S3 bucket testing-bucket-name: poll-interval is not supported by this remote
2024/07/13 00:06:02 DEBUG : Network mode mounting is disabled
2024/07/13 00:06:02 Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: mountpoint path already exists: C:\tmp\mount

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

welcome to the forum,

@devraj_kanti

mountpoint path already exists

• perhaps the last run of rclone did not exit cleanly?
• perhaps another instance of rclone running in the background and has locked the folder?
  can check task manager or run tasklist /FI "imagename eq rclone.exe"

@devraj_kanti

C:\tmp\mount

are there files there, what is there?

[devraj_kanti]

1. Last run of rclone did exit cleanly
2. No instance of rclone is running in the background

`C:\Users\user1>tasklist /FI "imagename eq rclone.exe"
INFO: No tasks are running which match the specified criteria.`

3. Under the directory "mount", there is no data.

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

@devraj_kanti

mountpoint path already exists: C:\tmp\mount

the mountpoint path must not exist. thus rclone is complaining.
so delete C:\tmp\mount and re-run your mount command.

[devraj_kanti]

Thank you for the quick response.

But the strange part is I am able to mount the buckets though the directory exists.

I am trying to mount multiple buckets in D:/Buckets with the below command and it is working.

start "Mounting S3 Bucket %%A" cmd /k "rclone.exe --no-console --config %rclone_conf_file% mount aws_s3:/%%A D:\Buckets\%%A --vfs-cache-mode full --verbose"

Where rclone_conf_file is the config file of rclone and %%A has the list of the buckets which needs to be mounted in "D:\Buckets"

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

@devraj_kanti

I am trying to mount multiple buckets in D:/Buckets with the below command and it is working.

looks good to me

@devraj_kanti

the directory exists

what is the full path of the directory you are referring to?

[devraj_kanti]

@devraj_kanti

D:\Buckets\%%A

Full path is "D:\Buckets" while %%A will have the shortcuts/hyperlinks of the bucket

Ex -
D:\Buckets\test-bucket-1
D:\Buckets\test-bucket-2
D:\Buckets\test-bucket-3
.
.
.

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

path representing a nonexistent subdirectory of an existing parent directory

path	status
test-bucket-1	nonexistent subdirectory
D:\Buckets	existing parent directory

on my machine

dir b:\rclone\mount
 Volume in drive B is EN10BDRIVE
 Volume Serial Number is D409-0B1D

 Directory of b:\rclone\mount

07/13/2024  03:28 PM    <DIR>          .
06/03/2024  01:36 PM    <DIR>          ..
07/13/2024  03:28 PM    <DIR>          real_dir
07/12/2024  11:47 AM    <JUNCTION>     ubuntu01_user01_sftp [\Device\Volume{25fe95e8-3efd-11ef-90df-482ae32ef6d1}\]

[devraj_kanti]

rclone mount aws_s3:/test-bucket1 X:

With the above command the bucket will be mounted in X: drive, where X drive is not any logical drive.

But my use case is, if I run the below command; all the buckets which are in the variable/list "%%A" will be mounted under "X:/Buckets" where X is not any logicaldrive.

Is there any solution available, if not can this be taken as a feature request?

rclone mount aws_s3:/%%A X:/Buckets

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

so basically,
you want a single instance of rclone.exe mount command to accept a list of bucket names.
and then have rclone create each mountpoint in a loop.

@devraj_kanti

where X is not any logicaldrive

if you want to mount to a folder, the parent path needs to be logical/real
the drive letter needs to be logical/real.

i do not want to use c: or d: as part of the mountpoint path.
so what i have done, is create a very small parition, 1GiB in size, labeled as b:
in my example from up above is b:\rclone\mount is the root for all my mounts
for example,
rclone mount remote:bucket b:\rclone\mount\bucket

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

@devraj_kanti

will be mounted under "X:/Buckets" where X is not any logicaldrive.

well, technically, rclone can mount to a virtual drive, with a bit of trickery and misdirection.

subst x: d:\buckets
rclone mount remote: x:\test-bucket-1

[devraj_kanti]

@devraj_kanti

rclone mount aws_s3:/%%A X:/Buckets

Yeah something like below should also be great -

rclone mount ['aws_s3:/bucket-1','aws_s3:/bucket-2'] D:/Buckets

Where D is a logical drive and a directory names "Buckets" exists.

[devraj_kanti]

Didn't understood it completely, will give it a try and then update you.

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

@devraj_kanti

Yeah something like below should also be great

you would need to script it, for ideas check out
https://forum.rclone.org/t/mounting-multiple-service-non-flat-union/24707

or might create a combine remote of the individual buckets.
and need only a single rclone mount command.

[devraj_kanti]

Thanks you. this also works. Though it creates in the "D:\Buckets" which is default feature of Windows

[devraj_kanti]

Yeah even I did the same thing, wrote all the buckets name in a config file(my_buck.config). From the bat file reading the conf file and iterating through the buckets in a for loop and mounting them one by one.