Mounting a remote drive at a local mount point

Having a local mount point to access the remote host filesystem is really helpful while carrying out both read and write data transfer operations. SSH is the common transfer protocol available in a network and hence, we can make use of it with sshfs which enables you to mount a remote filesystem to a local mount point. Let's see how to do it.

Getting ready

sshfs doesn't come by default with GNU/Linux distributions. Install sshfs by using a package manager. sshfs is an extension to the FUSE filesystem package that allows supported OSs to mount a wide variety of data as if it were a local filesystem.

For more information on FUSE, visit its website at http://fuse.sourceforge.net/.

How to do it...

In order to mount a filesystem location at a remote host to a local mount point, use:

# sshfs -o allow_other user@remotehost:/home/path /mnt/mountpoint
Password:

Issue the password when prompted, and data at /home/path on the remote host can be accessed via...