{"id":878,"date":"2018-04-16T08:17:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T08:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaipurhosting.com\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2019-04-29T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T09:50:40","slug":"how-to-mount-remote-partition-via-ssh-on-centos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaipurhosting.com\/blog\/how-to-mount-remote-partition-via-ssh-on-centos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Mount Remote Partition via SSH on CentOS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Description about SSHFS <\/strong><\/p>\n

SSHFS (SSH Filesystem<\/strong>) is a filesystem client to mount and interact with directories and files located on a remote server or workstation over a normal ssh connection.<\/p>\n

The client interacts with the remote file system via the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP<\/strong>), a network protocol providing file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable data stream that was designed as an extension of the Secure Shell protocol<\/strong> (SSH) version 2.0.<\/p>\n

SFTP provides secure file transfer and a secure remote file system.<\/p>\n

While SFTP clients may transfer files and directories, the related file system may not be mounted locally using SFTP alone<\/p>\n

Using SSHFS, a remote file system may be treated in the same way as other volumes (such as CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives and shared disks).<\/p>\n

We can easily mount a remote file system by using SSHFS.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Step 1. Enable the EPEL repo<\/strong><\/p>\n

We will need to install a few packages that are not available in the standard CentOS repository.<\/p>\n

In order to do this we must enable the EPEL repo, click on Link<\/a> to know about enable the EPEL repo.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Step 2. Install FUSE and SSHFS packages<\/strong><\/p>\n

SSHFS uses FUSE (Filesystem<\/strong> in Userspace). Install the required packages<\/p>\n

[root@vps ~]# yum install fuse sshfs<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Step 3. Load the FUSE module<\/strong><\/p>\n
[root@vps ~]# modprobe fuse<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Confirm that the FUSE module is loaded :<\/p>\n
[root@vps ~]# lsmod | grep fuse\nfuse         84368      2<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Make sure the FUSE module is loaded upon a reboot :<\/p>\n
[root@vps ~]# echo \"modprobe fuse\" >> \/etc\/rc.local<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Step 4. Using SSHFS<\/strong><\/p>\n
Once the FUSE module<\/strong> is loaded, we can finally mount our remote partition using SSHFS :<\/p>\n
[root@vps ~]# sshfs user@remote_host:\/remote_directory \/local_mount_partition<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
[root@vps ~]# sshfs root@1.2.3.4:\/scripts \/mnt<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Note: SSHFS is not recommended for production, distributed file-systems.<\/p>\n
NFS is a better option, however, SSHFS can still be quite useful.<\/p>\n
 <\/p>\n
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