sshfs might work if your fuse drive is mounted with options that will let it be shared and you have sudo access to enable sshfs. also ssh access is a requirement.

how is it mounted now? it should also be in that same mount printout and usually at the end of the line inside parenthesis.

What do you mean by intermediary? Do you mean syncing the files with the VM and then sharing the synced copy with the host?That wouldn’t work since my drive is smaller than the cloud drive and I need all the files on-demand.

that’s one way. do you need them all at the same time? are they mostly the same size and type?

i didn’t know that the sovereign tech fund was a thing and now i wonder how common something like that is; thanks for sharing.

then strace might help if we’re lucky enough to get something like memory addresses.

strace can be very verbose and requires a lot of knowledge that i doubt i can share through comments back and forth.

is creating an intermediary like others have commented on in this post an option? they’re automatically easier and faster than strace and there’s no gaurantee that strace will show us the information we need.

fortunately we won’t have to bother w strace; but i think i can see where you’ll be blocked.

do you have to provide a username/password or token when you try to access the drive now?

if yes, then you should be able to mount it like you’re trying to do using instructions like these and you can use the information from the last printout to fill in the blanks.

if no, then its access is controlled outside of your guest instance and you’ll need to ask your admins to enable access.

i bought a linux laptop a few years ago from a linux company to take advantage of things like coreboot and it’s had a dramatic impact compared to my windows laptops onto which i installed linux.

i’m in the initial stages of creating a new daily driver and i want to consider compatibility with other projects like this to help me re-acclimate to the general public’s linux user experience, so thanks for sharing and your guess; responses like this are really helpful in getting me back into this groove.

run the command mount with sudo access and if you can see it enumerated in the printout then you should be able to proceed with either a container overlay or separate mount point.

if not, then it’ll get very advanced very quickly; do you know how to use strace?

fwiw: if you go w the container strategy with docker or podman, you should be able to use the storage overlay based on how i’m reading your question.

it’s hard to ascertain any path forward w/o knowing more details on the cloud drive and how’s it’s currently mounted on the guest instance.

do you know how well it fares comparatively with alternatives like coreboot in arenas like power management?

there are cheaper alternatives; tuxedo and kfocus immediately come to mind.

The only thing that matters to me is the ability to assign colors to keys.

i hadn’t occurred to me to use an alternative; are you aware of any linux compatible ones?

awesome! now i can get one of these keyboards; thanks for sharing.

is the syntax the same?

some common things that have a better version; like sed; are ignored because of licensing and i’m convinced that if the syntax were the same we would all be using it anyways.

it hadn’t occurred to me that someone would use their distro w/o the hardware.

i bought from a system76 rival w their own distro too so that i can avoid situations like this and lemmy is teaching me how lazy and out of touch it’s made me; op’s smart to use a distro from a linux company that maintains its own distro with it’s own paid developers because there’s a stronger chance that there’s an answer in their forum, compared to some obscure distro maintained by volunteers with day jobs.

does system76 not provide support for things like this?

i’ve to stopped ingesting information about the linux ecosystem, experience, status; but i accidentally did it for about 5 years and lemmy is showing me how much i’ve disconnected myself; it seems like we’re both coming back.

Yum has the ability to search for and install plugins like that with yum provides and yum whatprovides and I’d be surprised if Suse didn’t port it or create something similar.

you can now use Nvidia cards with 80-90% as much ease as AMD users have on Linux

i’ve got a couple of goals that i want to accomplish with my new build and i think that forcing myself to do it the hard way like i used to 20ish years ago would help with that; but if amd has gotten easy, i wonder if i should go with nvidia again.

you’ve made me aware that i’ve missed the whole wayland/x11 situation by going with certified linux hardware and avoiding nvidia at all costs because of my experiences with it in the past. this endeavor has made me realize how disconnected i’ve made myself from the reality of 95% of linux users by sitting in my little bubble of certified linux hardware and only talking to other linux professionals instead of the general public.

my conversations with those professionals are NOTHING like the ones here and you can tell when capitalism has sucked the passion out of it for them because it takes one to know one. i’m finding that jumping back in is rekindling it for me; i’ve spent a considerable about of times making plans for this build and i can’t remember how long it’s been since if felt any excitement about a linux-centric project.

i’ve only owned one macbook in my life and it too came from the e-waste bin and it worked well for about 5 years.

that’s also where i got a lot of hardware that i still use to this day.