In order to mount S3 bucket on Linux you need to install ssh file system (FUSE) libraries first.
Install:
aptitude install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev libfuse-dev comerr-dev libfuse2 libidn11-dev libkadm55 libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev libselinux1-dev libsepol1-dev pkg-config fuse-utils sshfs Follow the instantiations in S3fs WIKI:
https://code.google.com/p/s3fs/wiki/InstallationNotes
It was using http download, not SVN.
Create a mount point for the new file system (ex.
mkdir /mnt/s3)
Mount the file system:
ex.:
s3fs tmpname -o use_cache=/tmp -o allow_other /mnt/s3
this mount comes with option of using a tmp as a cache for S3 content, you can clean that cache as you feel fit.
You can also add your bucket to /etc/fstab
s3fs#mybucket /mnt/s3 fuse allow_other,url=https://s3.amazonaws.com 0 0
Update for mounting S3 bucket on CentOS 5.5 and other old distros.
CentOS 5.5 comes with old FUSE version 2.7.4 as latest in it`s repository.
You need to manually compile version 2.8.4 be…