Why can't I setup an SSHFS share? “OSXFUSE file system is not available” error
I'm trying to setup an SSHFS share from my local machine to a remote machine, but it is not working. I'm getting the error OSXFUSE file system is not available (see below). How to fix this??
FYI, my local machine is a MacBook Pro laptop running OSX 10.9.3. The remote machine is actually a VirtualBox on the same hardware running CentOS.
% brew install sshfs # <---- SSHFS is installed
Warning: sshfs-2.5.0 already installed
% brew install osxfuse # <---- OSX Fuse is installed
Warning: osxfuse-2.6.4 already installed
% ssh [email protected] # <---- See, SSH works!!
Last login: Wed Jun 18 18:36:11 2014 from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
[[email protected] ~]% exit
% sudo mkdir /mnt
% sudo mkdir /mnt/Share
% sudo sshfs -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]:/ /mnt/Share
the OSXFUSE file system is not available (-1)
the OSXFUSE file system is not available (1)
I tried solution described here. But it didn't work for me:
% sudo kextunload -b com.github.osxfuse.filesystems.osxfusefs
(kernel) Kext com.github.osxfuse.filesystems.osxfusefs not found for unload request.
Failed to unload com.github.osxfuse.filesystems.osxfusefs - (libkern/kext) not found.
Answer
If you run brew info osxfuse and follow the instructions to the letter, I believe it would work.
From what You described, you just tried unloading the (possible) previous kernel extension, but did not complete the last important step to actually install the new extension.
This is what brew info osxfuse tells me:
If upgrading from a previous version of osxfuse, the previous kernel extension
will need to be unloaded before installing the new version. First, check that
no FUSE-based file systems are running:
mount -t osxfusefs
Unmount all FUSE file systems and then unload the kernel extension:
sudo kextunload -b com.github.osxfuse.filesystems.osxfusefs
The new osxfuse file system bundle needs to be installed by the root user:
sudo /bin/cp -RfX /usr/local/opt/osxfuse/Library/Filesystems/osxfusefs.fs /Library/Filesystems
sudo chmod +s /Library/Filesystems/osxfusefs.fs/Support/load_osxfusefs