Install the appropriate libraries
apt-get update
apt-get -y install libfuse-dev libfuse2 libc6-dev make pkg-config gcc build-essential libcurl3-dev libxml2-dev libfuse-dev
Download the packages
mkdir –p /mnt/work/downloads
cd /mnt/work/downloads
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fuse/fuse-2.8.0-pre1.tar.gz?modtime=1215728006&big_mirror=0
wget http://s3fs.googlecode.com/files/s3fs-r177-source.tar.gz
Install fuse
cd /mnt/work
tar xfz downloads/fuse-2.8.0-pre1.tar.gz
cd /mnt/work/fuse-2.8.0-pre1/
./configure
make
make install
Install s3fs
cd /mnt/work
tar xfz downloads/s3fs-r177-source.tar.gz
cd /mnt/work/s3fs/
make
make install
Link the fusermount to /usr/sbin (for rc.local purposes)
ln –s /usr/local/bin/fusermount /usr/bin/fusermount
Mounting your s3 folder
This assume that you have the folder /myfolder in your s3 account.
mkdir -p /mnt/s3buckets/myfolder
s3fs -o allow_other myfolder /mnt/s3buckets/myfolder/ -o use_cache=/tmp/s3fs_cache -o accessKeyId=YOURACCESSKEYID-o secretAccessKey=YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
Note: If you trust your server and the users that has access to your /etc, you can create a file /etc/passwd-s3fs which contains just your Amazon ID and secret key separated by ":", e.g: YOURACCESSKEYID:YOURSECRETACCESSKEY). Next you can add the mount cmd into your rc.local file... everytime you boot you will see the mount s3 folder...
