sshfs login problem on android - invalid argument

Question

I am login into android phone as usual, but facing problem as below: Try 1: (failed)

$ sshfs -p 8022 [email protected]:/storage ~/sshfs-mount2 -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/termux-rsa  
sshfs: invalid argument `[email protected]:/storage'

Try 2: (failed)

$ sshfs -p 8022 [email protected] ~/sshfs-mount -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/termux-rsa 
sshfs: invalid argument `[email protected]'

Try 3: (failed)

$ sshfs -p 8022 192.168.43.189 ~/sshfs-mount -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/termux-rsa   
sshfs: invalid argument `192.168.43.189'

Try4: (ssh success)

ssh -p 8022 192.168.43.189 -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/termux-rsa 

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What's the problem with sshfs login ? I want to mount my phone on a folder on manjaro laptop. This sshfs used to work, but somehow when i used phone hotspot to connect, it have this problem.

Answer 1

Your command did not work because sshfs had an alias for sshfs -p 8022 [email protected]:/ ~/sshfs-mount -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/termux-rsa thus when you try to run your command this fails.

You can solve the problem by using:

1. Unalias your command in your shell file (e.g. if it's bash then it'd be ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_aliases perhaps)
2. Simply run the command sshfs without arguments. But given that the alias use [email protected]:/ and you use [email protected]:/storage then this should not be useful.
3. Prefix a \ to your command to avoid your shell uses the alias:

\sshfs -p 8022 [email protected]:/storage ~/sshfs-mount2 -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/termux-rsa