== 2025-07-19 (Saturday) ==

Why didn't I know about SSHFS?

I've used ssh for years, played with ssh local and remote
forwarding. Use SCP frequently. Used remote X11 display over SSH.
But I didn't know about SSHFS!

Simple way of mounting remote directories locally.

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mkdir gopher
sshfs user@remote:/srv/gopher gopher

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that mounts the remote "/srv/gopher" directory on local "gopher"
directory.


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cd gopher

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and you're in the remote "/srv/gopher" directory!

When finished just un-mount it

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umount gopher

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job done!

I'm amazed I haven't used it before.

I used NFS many years ago when I had a small network of Linux
boxes, but it was always tricky to set up.

I'll keep using SSHFS for a while and see how I like it!

--g4slv