macFUSE giving mount_macfuse: mount point ... is itself on a macFUSE volume - Apple M1 macOS 12.3

Question

This issue is driving me crazy. I keep getting an error: "macFUSE giving mount_macfuse: mount point ... is itself on a macFUSE volume "

where ... is my mount point

when i run sshfs --version i clearly dont have the correct FUSE version coming up, according to my install i have 4.2.4 installed under system prferences with macOS 12.3

i tried installing FUSE from the .dmg, i removed it, tried installing via brew.. restart after restart. upgraded the OS to latest. Homebrew 3.4.2

output from terminal when running "sshfs --version"

SSHFS version 2.5 (OSXFUSE SSHFS 2.5.0)
FUSE library version: 2.9.9
fuse: no mount point

Ive never been able to mount an external host fs using the simple command:

sudo sshfs hosta:/ ~/Desktop/2 -o defer_permissions,auto_cache,reconnect,volname=hostamnt

can anyone shed some light on this issue?

Answer 1

For me, the problem was in the selection of options. The following finally worked, based on this:

mkdir ~/sshfs_mount

sshfs -o kill_on_unmount,reconnect,allow_other,defer_permissions,direct_io,IdentityFile=~/.ssh/id_rsa [email protected]:/home/the_user/ ~/sshfs_mount

# <<< the folder is mounted and visible in the finder >>

umount ~/sshfs_mount

P.S Remove ,IdentityFile=~/.ssh/id_rsa to match your connection configs

Answer 2

Just unmount the folder you specified in the local and try again, it mounts each time even if the file changes, so make sure to unmount if you want to try again

umount /your_directory/

In this case

umount /tmp/fuse

If it is showing error again, you can try

diskutil umount force /your_directory/

Answer 3

Heads up with macOS Ventura (beta), I had the same error.

It looks like for some reason I wasn't able to mount in a folder in my user directory. Doing it in /tmp worked fine though. This may be some new directory protection thing.

So slightly amending Oleg O's great answer above and reusing their options, this worked for me:

mkdir /tmp/fuse

sshfs -o kill_on_unmount,reconnect,allow_other,defer_permissions,direct_io,IdentityFile=~/.ssh/id_rsa [email protected]:/home/ubuntu/ /tmp/fuse

umount /tmp/fuse