sshfs – Remote filesystem access made easy
September 21st, 2008
If you often need to access files on a remote machine and do it by ssh login, there is a handy way – sshfs. Here is a simplified howto that works on CentOS.
(1) Set up the rpmforge repository if not done yet (see Installing RPMForge on CentOS )
(2) Either use the dkms-fuse with the stock CentOS kernel or use the centosplus kernel that contains the fuse kernel module.
[root@mybox ~]# yum install dkms-fuse && modprobe fuse
(3) Also install the fuse libraries:
[root@mybox ~]# yum install fuse
(4) Then install the fuse-ssh filesystem:
[root@mybox ~]# yum install fuse-sshfs
(5) Add yourself to the group ‘fuse’:
[root@mybox ~]# usermod -a -G fuse user1
(6) Re-logon to your account
(7) Create a local directory:
[user1@mybox ~]$ mkdir remotedir/
(8) To mount (remote username=usr2):
[user1@mybox ~]$ sshfs user2@machine.example.com: remotedir/
(9) To unmount:
[user1@mybox ~]$ fusermount -u remotedir
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