Connecting
to a server across the internet is much more secure using SSH. There is a way
that you can mount a folder on a remove server using the SSHFS service.
There
are quite a few steps that you’ll have to follow, so get ready and open a
terminal window.
Step1:Installing Package
On
Ubuntu/Debain
apt-get install sshfs
On
Redhat/CentOS/Fedora
Step2:Once the package is installed we have
to create a mount point and mount our server data using sshfs command,
for which we require user-name/password. Here are my details for this
task.
My Username: root
My password: redhat
My Server: 10.10.8.192
My mount point: /mnt/ssh
Now
create the mount point and mount SSH account data.
#mkdir /mnt/ssh
#sshfs root@10.10.8.192:/ /mnt/ssh/
root@10.10.8.192's password:
Step3:Testing our set-up
Check
if you are able to see the SSH data
#cd
/mnt/ssh
#ls
Sample
output
bin
cdrom data etc
initrd.img
lib media opt
root selinux sys tmp
var vmlinuz.old
boot cmdb-bkp dev
home initrd.img.old lost+found mnt
proc sbin srv test usr
vmlinuz
What
about df -hs command output?
Sample
output
Filesystem
Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2
12G 8.4G 2.5G 78% /
/dev/sda6
80G 43G 34G 56% /var
/dev/sda5
2.0G 41M 1.8G 3% /home
/dev/sda1
99M 12M 83M 12% /boot
tmpfs
506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
sshfs#root@10.233.10.212:/
1000G 0
1000G 0% /mnt/ssh
Step4:So what about mounting it permanently?.
We can do it by editing fstab file in /etc folder
#vi /etc/fstab
go
to last line and type below line
sshfs#root@10.10.8.192:/ /mnt/ssh fuse
defaults 0 0
Save
the file and exit. Now run mount -a to update the fstab file state to kernel.
#mount -a
Let
me explain what entry in fstab indicates. We are mentioning mount user root
data which is located on 10.10.8.192 server on to /mnt/ssh using fuse file
system with default settings.
Step5:What
about unmounting this drive?
#umount /mnt/ssh
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