How to map s3fs drive on an EC2 ubuntu server

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...

How to copy files using tar without a tar file / How to tar and untar without a tar file.

# why do this, well tar keep the ownership and permission of the files
# where cp -r will make everything own by the user doing the copy.

(cd / ; tar cf - home) | (cd /newhome; tar xvf -)

How to partition/format a disk under linux

# first use fdisk to setup your partition, for more info on fdisk, type man fdisk
fdisk /dev/hda

# Now that you partitioned your disk let's format it (man mke2fs)
mke2fs /dev/hda1 <--- you have to do this for each partition you created, just replace 1 for partition #

How to mount a webdav share with a comand line

## Here is the command I use to mount a test webDav share on my Mac OS X / unix

/sbin/mount_webdav -o noautomounted -o browse -a15 -vmyfotoz http://localhost:8080/ /Volumes/myfotoz/

How to rsync data from one UNIX server to an other

## Like lots of people I have lots of pictures online, 36 GB... I don't want to lose those preciouses ## memories, so I setup a cron to rsync my data every weeks. The beauty of rsync is that it won't ## copy what's has not change. For more info on rsync just type: man rsync

cd /backup/
rsync -rlptgov root@thibeault.cc:/path/to/my/photos/on/thibeault/cc/ photos/

## here if you like to snoop around my photo Album.
http://thibeault.cc/photoAlbum/

How to mount an iso on Linux

# First image
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 FIRST_TRIP.iso /mnt

# Second image (make sure mnt2 exist)
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop1 LAST_TRIP.iso /mnt2

How to create an iso image on linux (dd/mkisofs)

# How to create the content of a directory into an iso image
## if you mount an unprotected DVD under /dev/disk2/
## Here how you can make an iso file from it.

dd if=/dev/disk2 of=FIRST_TRIP.iso bs=256k

or

cd /dev/disk2
mkisofs -r -o ~/FIRST_TRIP.iso .

How to Batch Uppercase/lowercase file/directory

## under tcsh shell

# make the directory lowercase...
foreach f ( `find . -type d -print ` )
mv $f `echo $f | tr A-Z a-z`
end

# make the file lowercase...
foreach f ( `find . -type f -print ` )
mv $f `echo $f | tr A-Z a-z`
end

How to Batch Change file names under tcsh

## example: for each file ending by .jpg, replace any spaces with underscores

foreach i (*.jpg*)
echo $i > /tmp/nom
set j=`sed -e '1,$s? ?_?g' /tmp/nom`
mv "$i" "$j"
\rm /tmp/nom
end