Mount Minio to Local Directory: Quick Guide

1 year ago
Ava Mitchell
1 minute

To mount MinIO to a local directory, you can use Fuse along with MinIO’s S3 Gateway.

Here are the steps to mount MinIO to a local directory using Fuse:

  1. To install Fuse and s3fs on Linux, use the following commands:
    sudo apt-get install fuse
    sudo apt-get install s3fs
  2. To install Fuse and s3fs on Mac, use Homebrew:
    brew install –cask osxfuse
    brew install s3fs
  3. The file location for the password file for connecting to an S3 file system is ~/.passwd-s3fs.
  4. SECRET_KEY with ACCESS_KEY
  5. Create a file called ‘.passwd-s3fs’ in your home directory with the text “ACCESS_KEY:SECRET_KEY”, then change its permissions to 600.
  6. Create a directory called “minio-mount” in your home directory.
  7. The address for the Minio server.
  8. Name of the bucket
  9. Mount the bucket named “BUCKET_NAME” from Minio to the directory “~/minio-mount” using the password file “~/.passwd-s3fs” and the URL “https://MINIO_ENDPOINT” with s3fs.
  10. -to grant permission to others

The MinIO bucket should now be successfully mounted to the local directory ~/minio-mount. You can access this directory to read and write objects on MinIO.

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