Mounted directory not listing in terminal Normally, I mount a remote drive to a directory on my Mac and it all works fine. I can open, edit and save my files in a text editor and they save back to the server, using the following to perform the mount:

sshfs root@*.*.*.*:/var/www Documents/AWS/EC2/Linode

This morning however, I get the following error:

fuse: bad mount point `Documents/AWS/EC2/Linode': Input/output error


On the terminal, I listed the content of Documents/AWS/EC2 and Linode is missing. So, I decide to recreate it but the system complains it already exists.

I'm stumped. Can anyone help, please?
I found a solution based on the following steps:


Find the culprit sshfs process: $ pgrep -lf sshfs
Kill it: $ kill -9 &lt;pid_of_sshfs_process&gt;
Force unmount the "unavailable" directory: umount -f Documents/AWS/EC2/Linode