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SSH-FS-Fuse HowTo

Author

James Mills

Description

A very useful and nice way to mount remote file systems is to use sshfs-fuse. This allows you to mount a remote file system over an SSH connection. Here's how...

Instructions

Prepare your Kernel

The latest series of 2.6.x kernels now come with FUSE (userland file system) support built-in. You only need to compile your kernel from source and ensure it matches your running kernel. For older kernels, please install fuse from ports.

See: Building a Kernel?

Install sshfs-fuse

$ prt-get depinst sshfs-fuse

Usage

$ sshfs user@host:/some/path/ /some/local/path