Before we begin, make sure that you have the following:

1. An Amazon S3 account with at least one bucket created
2. An access key and secret key with access to your S3 bucket
3. A Debian or ubuntu system with root access
4. S3FS installed on your system

Step 1: Install S3FS

$ sudo apt update 

$ sudo apt install s3fs 

This command installs S3FS on your Debian system.

Step 2: Create a directory to mount the S3 bucket

Now, create a directory to mount the s3 bucket. You can also use an existing directory.

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/s3-mount

This creates a directory where the S3 bucket will be mounted. You can choose a different directory name as desired.

Modify the permissions for the mount directory:

$ sudo chmod 777 /mnt/s3-mount 

This sets the permissions for the mount directory to allow read/write access for all users

Step 3: Create Credentials File

Create a password file to store your access and secret keys. You can generate key pair in your Amazon web services account.

$ echo ACCESS_KEY:SECRET_KEY > ~/.passwd-s3fs 

$ sudo chmod 600 ~/.passwd-s3fs 

Replace ACCESS_KEY and SECRET_KEY with your actual Amazon S3 access and secret keys. This file stores your access and secret keys securely, and the permissions are set to prevent unauthorized access

Step 4: Mounting the S3 bucket

Finally, use s3fs command line tool to mount your s3 bucket.

$ sudo s3fs BUCKET_NAME /mnt/s3-mount -o passwd_file=~/.passwd-s3fs 

Replace the “BUCKET_NAME” with the actual name of your Amazon S3 bucket. This command mounts the S3 bucket at the specified mount directory.

Step 5: Verify It

To verify that s3 bucket is successfully mounted, execute:

$ sudo df -h 

This command displays the disk usage and mounted file systems on your system. If the S3 bucket is successfully mounted, you should see the mount directory listed with its corresponding S3 bucket name.