diff --git a/cmd/mountlib/mount.md b/cmd/mountlib/mount.md index 8d640d5c6..4a1b361c9 100644 --- a/cmd/mountlib/mount.md +++ b/cmd/mountlib/mount.md @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ at all, then 1 PiB is set as both the total and the free size. ### Installing on Windows -To run rclone @ on Windows, you will need to +To run `rclone @ on Windows`, you will need to download and install [WinFsp](http://www.secfs.net/winfsp/). [WinFsp](https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp) is an open-source @@ -324,6 +324,17 @@ full new copy of the file. When mounting with `--read-only`, attempts to write to files will fail *silently* as opposed to with a clear warning as in macFUSE. +## Mounting on Linux + +On newer versions of Ubuntu, you may encounter the following error when running +`rclone mount`: + +> NOTICE: mount helper error: fusermount3: mount failed: Permission denied +> CRITICAL: Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: fusermount: exit status 1 +This may be due to newer [Apparmor](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor) restrictions, +which can be disabled with `sudo aa-disable /usr/bin/fusermount3` (you may need to +`sudo apt install apparmor-utils` beforehand). + ### Limitations Without the use of `--vfs-cache-mode` this can only write files