Impossible to mount cloud drive

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I have several error message when I try to mount my cloud drive on my pc.

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

Release 1.68 last version

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

Own hosted.

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

rclone mount --vfs-cache-mode full oliver:backup/ x:
Tried also
rclone mount oliver:backup/ x:
and
rclone mount oliver:backup/ *

Always different error messages.

Running on windows unbuntu.

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

config works fine

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

 CRITICAL: Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: cannot open: x:: open x:: no such file or directory
I have also in the detailed log : poll-interval is not supported by this remote

if I try with the * for next available drive I have this other message :
Command mount needs 2 arguments maximum: you provided 3 non flag arguments: 


hi,
please post the output of:

rclone version
rclone config redacted

need to run command with -vv for debug output and post the full output, ok?
rclone mount oliver:backup/ x: -vv

Hi and thanks here is the output :

DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.68.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "mount" "oliver:backup/" "x:" "-vv"]
2024/10/25 16:35:36 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "oliver:backup/"
2024/10/25 16:35:36 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/usr/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2024/10/25 16:35:48 DEBUG : sftp://user@drive.location.me:22/backup/: New connection ipadressposrt->ipadress port 22 to "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.9p1 Debian-10+deb10u3"
2024/10/25 16:35:49 DEBUG :sftp://user@drive.location.me:22/backup/:
Shell type "unix" from config
2024/10/25 16:35:49 DEBUG : sftp://user@drive.location.me:22/backup/: Relative path resolved to "/home11/pakorn/downloads"
2024/10/25 16:35:49 DEBUG : sftp://user@drive.location.me:22/backup/:
Using root directory "/home11/user/backup"
2024/10/25 16:35:49 INFO : sftp://user@drive.location.me:22/backup/:
poll-interval is not supported by this remote
2024/10/25 16:35:49 CRITICAL: Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: cannot open: x:: open x:: no such file or directory

What is your:

rclone version

run above command and post output.

Also please try to format what you are posting. Hard to read your posts.
Encapsulate logs, outputs etc. in "```" or "~~~". Then it looks like this:

formatted log

Ok sorry for that...

here is the version :

rclone v1.68.1

  • os/version: ubuntu 22.04 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (x86_64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.23.1
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: none

You are using Linux. There are no drive letters in your OS. It is Windows stuff. So it obviously fails.

Mount it to some directory.

E.g. create ~/my_mount dir and then:

rclone mount oliver:backup ~/my_mount -vv

Actually I see you are on Windows.. Why are you using WSL? Especially that it looks like you do not know how it works:)

Forget WSL. Install rclone for Windows. It will be easier.

Yes I used WSL to make a try. do you recommend double system boot ?

I do not recommend anything. It is really up to you.

If you want to use Linux then mount to the path.

Yes I used WSL to make a try. do you recommend double system boot ? I really like WSL because you can work on Windows while doing my copy paste and backups using rclone at the same time. Not sure this is going to work out with dual boot.

please, for testing, just pick ONE system to test on. get that working before trying ther other system, ok?
otherwise, gets very confusing for us.

rclone works fine on WSL.

no need for double system boot.

  • rclone works fine on WSL.
  • if you do not want to use WSL, can also run ubuntu in a hyper-v virtual machine.

Ok I need to clarify : the mount error messages I pasted on this message are on Unbuntu running on Windows 11 using WSL. I setup Winfsp as described on rclone website.

Mount still not working.

rclone mount oliver:backup/ /mnt// -vv :*
Command mount needs 2 arguments maximum: you provided 9 non flag arguments: ["oliver:/backup" "/mnt/c/" "/mnt/d/" "/mnt/e/" "/mnt/f/" "/mnt/g/" "/mnt/h/" "/mnt/wsl/" "/mnt/wslg/"]

rclone mount oliver:/backup X: -vv
CRITICAL: Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: cannot open: X:: open X:: no such file or directory

rclone mount oliver:/backup D:\shared -vv
Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: cannot open: D:shared: open D:shared: no such file or directory

Below is the official doc from rclone website, as you can see I just followed exactly the guide.

If someone can help me would be much much appreciated :slight_smile:

To run rclone mount on Windows, you will need to download and install WinFsp.

WinFsp is an open-source Windows File System Proxy which makes it easy to write user space file systems for Windows. It provides a FUSE emulation layer which rclone uses combination with cgofuse. Both of these packages are by Bill Zissimopoulos who was very helpful during the implementation of rclone mount for Windows.

When mounting as a fixed disk drive you can either mount to an unused drive letter, or to a path representing a nonexistent subdirectory of an existing parent directory or drive. Using the special value * will tell rclone to automatically assign the next available drive letter, starting with Z: and moving backward. Examples:

* *rclone mount remote:path/to/files ** *rclone mount remote:path/to/files X:* *rclone mount remote:path/to/files C:\path\parent\mount* *rclone mount remote:path/to/files X:* *

Decide what you do - Windows or Linux. You want to use WSL - fine. But then forget Windows stuff like WinFsp.

Make it clear what you want and then somebody can help

Windows and Linux are two different OS - with different requirements. Does not matter really that you run one inside another.

There is nothing like x: drive in Linux (nor any other letter) and there is no WinFsp there neither.

I told you already what to do - mount your remote to some path. This actually should work in both Linux and Windows.

Sorry i am confused and very new into all of this.

I want to run it on Windows as i do today.
What would be the commande then to create remote as a folder ?

Thank you.

Install rclone for Windows
Install WinFsp
Configure your remote

Run your mount:

rclone mount remote:path/to/files C:\path\mount

Make sure that mount in C:\path\mount is nonexistent

more details and other options in docs

I tried this now but still not working.

I did install WSL and winfsp.
I created a folder C:/Mount

I open Unbuntu :
rclone mount oliver:backup C:\Mount\oliver

Error message still this one :
Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: cannot open: C:Mountoliver: open C:Mountoliver: no such file or directory

Sorry but I' m really lost with those commands even looking into the docs.

you are confusing windows and WSL.
must think of WSL as a separate operating system from windows.
WSL runs in a virtual machine.

they are two different operating systems, each using a different path syntax.
windows - c:\path\to\folder
linux/WSL - /path/to/folder

winfsp is for running rclone mount on windows only. WSL does not need it.

that is not going to work.
C: can only be used from window os, not from WSL
if you want to use WSL, must mount to a folder inside WSL

as a test, in WSL, try

mkdir ~/mount
rclone mount oliver:backup ~/mount -vv

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