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Asked: 2016-09-01 00:33:33 +0800 CST

fusermount: fuse device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first

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I am running an instance on gcloud compute engine. I need to mount a Google storage bucket (which belongs to a different project) to my instance. The instance runs on Debian Wheezy. I have installed gcc, fuse, gcsfuse. But when I tried to mount the bucket:

$ gcsfuse bucket-name /mnt/bucket-name

I got the error: stderr: fusermount: fuse device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first

Tried "modprobe fuse", I got error: -bash: modprobe: command not found

Anyone knows what the problem might be, or anyone has encountered the same issue? Any thoughts, comments, help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

fuse gcsfuse debian-wheezy

3 Answers

  1. I have resolved the issue with an upgrade to Jessie and then installed gcsfuse following the instructions here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse/blob/master/docs/installing.md

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  2. To locate a command on your system, you can use whereis which will search all the common locations to give you the full path.

    whereis modprobe

    .. on my system outputs:

    modprobe: /sbin/modprobe /etc/modprobe.d /etc/modprobe.conf /lib/modprobe.d /usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.8.bz2

    In this case, and probably yours, you would then know to call it as /sbin/modprobe fuse.

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  3. In case someone is using Cloud Run on Google Cloud Platform, second generation of execution environment should be used.

    gcloud beta run deploy filesystem-app  --source . \
    --allow-unauthenticated \
    --service-account fs-identity \
    --update-env-vars BUCKET=[YOUR_BUCKET] \
    --region=europe-north1 \
    --execution-environment gen2

    Flag --execution-environment gen2 it vital based on documentation:

    You should use second generation if any of the following apply to your Cloud Run service:
  - Your service needs to use a network file system, which is only supported by second generation.
  - ...
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