diff --git a/setup/start.sh b/setup/start.sh
index 6d9d7eb16..e81cc381c 100755
--- a/setup/start.sh
+++ b/setup/start.sh
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ mkdir -p "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/logs/backup" \
 mkdir -p "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/update"
 mkdir -p "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/sftp/ssh" # sftp keys
 mkdir -p "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/firewall"
+mkdir -p "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/sshfs"
 
 # ensure backups folder exists and is writeable
 mkdir -p /var/backups
@@ -234,7 +235,7 @@ log "Changing ownership"
 # note, change ownership after db migrate. this allow db migrate to move files around as root and then we can fix it up here
 # be careful of what is chown'ed here. subdirs like mysql,redis etc are owned by the containers and will stop working if perms change
 chown -R "${USER}" /etc/cloudron
-chown "${USER}:${USER}" -R "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/nginx" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/collectd" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/addons" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/acme" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/backup" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/logs" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/update" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/sftp" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/firewall"
+chown "${USER}:${USER}" -R "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/nginx" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/collectd" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/addons" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/acme" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/backup" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/logs" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/update" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/sftp" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/firewall" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/sshfs"
 chown "${USER}:${USER}" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}/INFRA_VERSION" 2>/dev/null || true
 chown "${USER}:${USER}" "${PLATFORM_DATA_DIR}"
 chown "${USER}:${USER}" "${APPS_DATA_DIR}"
diff --git a/src/mounts.js b/src/mounts.js
index ee382258f..349a534df 100644
--- a/src/mounts.js
+++ b/src/mounts.js
@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@ async function tryAddMount(mount, options) {
     if (mount.mountType === 'sshfs') {
         const keyFilePath = path.join(paths.SSHFS_KEYS_DIR, `id_rsa_${mount.mountOptions.host}`);
 
-        safe.fs.mkdirSync(paths.SSHFS_KEYS_DIR);
         if (!safe.fs.writeFileSync(keyFilePath, `${mount.mountOptions.privateKey}\n`, { mode: 0o600 })) throw new BoxError(BoxError.FS_ERROR, safe.error);
     }