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I may have messed things up....... I had a lot of docker config and data stored in /home/skynet I then ran a sshfs command and it disappeared. I was trying to send the contents of /home/skynet (server) to /home/shady/skynet (desktop). This was in order to be able to edit the files on the server on the desktop via VSCodium.

I'd love recommendations on how to do this, but first how do I get my files back???

Here is what I did

skynet@skynet:~/docker/keycloak$ sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions [email protected]:/home/shady/skynet /home/skynet
[email protected]'s password: 
skynet@skynet:~/docker/keycloak$ cd
skynet@skynet:~$ ks
-bash: ks: command not found
skynet@skynet:~$ ls
skynet@skynet:~$ ls -a
.  ..
skynet@skynet:~$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0   3.6T  0 disk 
├─sda1        8:1    0    16M  0 part 
└─sda2        8:2    0   3.6T  0 part /media/devmon
nvme0n1     259:0    0 476.9G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   476G  0 part /
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0     1K  0 part 
└─nvme0n1p5 259:3    0   975M  0 part [SWAP]
skynet@skynet:~$ cd /home
skynet@skynet:/home$ ls
changedetection  linuxbrew  skynet  syncthing
skynet@skynet:/home$ cd skynet/
skynet@skynet:~$ ls
skynet@skynet:~$ ls -a
.  ..
skynet@skynet:~$ cd /home
skynet@skynet:/home$ ls
changedetection  linuxbrew  skynet  syncthing
skynet@skynet:/home$ fusermount -u /home/shady/skynet
fusermount: bad mount point /home/shady/skynet: No such file or directory
skynet@skynet:/home$ sudo journalctl -u sshfs
-- No entries --
skynet@skynet:/home$
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[–] jesta 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions [email protected]:/home/shady/skynet /home/skynet

You mounted your desktop files on top of the server files.

fusermount -u /home/shady/skynet

this should be

fusermount -u /home/skynet

[–] Dust0741 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
skynet@skynet:/home$ fusermount -u /home/skynet
fusermount: entry for /home/skynet not found in /etc/mtab
[–] jesta 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

can you see the the mount using mount ?

[–] Dust0741 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

running mount prints a lot, but at the bottom it has: [email protected]:/home/shady/skynet on /home/skynet type fuse.sshfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other)

[–] jesta 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

umount /home/skynet

should release it.

[–] Dust0741 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

umount: /home/skynet: target is busy.

[–] jesta 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

umount -f /home/skynet

You can force it.

[–] Dust0741 1 points 1 month ago

should I use -fl

[–] Dust0741 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

uh....didn't work

skynet@skynet:~$ sudo umount -f /home/skynet
umount: /home/skynet: target is busy.
[–] jesta 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

you most likely have a terminal open that is currently in that path.

[–] Dust0741 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i have docker containers using that folder. could that be it?

[–] jesta 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Dust0741 4 points 1 month ago

thank you so much. everything is back.

[–] Dust0741 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

some sources online say that rebooting will revert it....do I risk it?

[–] jesta 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

if rebooting is and option, it will release the mounts. And should be safe because mounting on top of an existing path doesn't really break anything. the original files still exist, but are just hidden because they are under the new mount. Once the mount is released, everything should be as it was.