# Unable to mount S3 Bucket using FUSE s3fs

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/unable-to-mount-s3-bucket-using-fuse-s3fs/39610>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [July 19, 2013, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/unable-to-mount-s3-bucket-using-fuse-s3fs/39610 "2013-07-19T12:14:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Simon\_Shapcott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Simon\_Shapcott](https://community.wowza.com/u/Simon_Shapcott)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/unable-to-mount-s3-bucket-using-fuse-s3fs/39610/1 "2013-07-19T12:14:47Z")

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I have an S3 bucket which I’m trying to mount as a files system in my EC2 instance however when I do, the command works and no errors are returned but I do not see any of my directories or files listed in the file location.

I’m following the guide here [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-the-fuse-based-file-system-backed-by-amazon-s3](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-the-fuse-based-file-system-backed-by-amazon-s3) and believe I have followed it correctly and I’m sure the Access Key and Secret Key are correct as they are the ones I use to stream using the MediaCache plugin. Is there a step I am missing?

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Young](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/matt_young/32/389_2.png) [@Matt\_Young](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matt_Young)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 9:07am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/unable-to-mount-s3-bucket-using-fuse-s3fs/39610/2 "2013-07-19T09:07:25Z")

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That sounds correct. When you do a ls -al on the /mnt/s3 it returns nothing? If you list all your mounted drives, does it show up as mounted?

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**Author:** ![Simon\_Shapcott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Simon\_Shapcott](https://community.wowza.com/u/Simon_Shapcott)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/unable-to-mount-s3-bucket-using-fuse-s3fs/39610/3 "2013-07-19T15:19:07Z")

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Hi Matt, yes that is correct, the device shows as mounted but empty (see below)

```auto
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 9.9G 1.4G 8.1G 14% /
tmpfs 829M 0 829M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/xvdb 147G 241M 140G 1% /media/ephemeral0
s3fs 256T 0 256T 0% /mnt/s3
[root@ip-172-31-14-23 /]# ls -al /mnt/s3/
total 0
[root@ip-172-31-14-23 /]#

```