Mounting a Remote Drive using FUSE

If you have FUSE (Filessystem in Userspace) installed, you can use SSH to mount a remote drive locally. This is very simple to do and you don’t need to be root. You just need SSH access to the remote system. Just create a directory to mount the system and use the sshfs command to connect the remote to it.

Here I will mount my home directory on my remote server named slacker locally to a directory on my laptop’s home directory:

$ cd ~
$ mkdir slacker
$ sshfs user@192.168.1.99:/home/user/ slacker
$ cd slacker/
$ ls
Backups		  KVM	    Public	     bin	   iso		     public_html
Calibre\ Library  Music     PycharmProjects  cv_debug.log  logs		     tmp
Desktop		  OneDrive  README.txt	     file.txt	   lynis-report.dat
Documents	  Pictures  Templates	     fortune.txt   lynis.log
Downloads	  Podcasts  Videos	     go		   pCloudDrive

The above is a listing of my home directory on the remote.

• Cli
• Fuse
• Sshfs
• Motd