sshfs with Lots of Space
I just used Fuse to mount my home directories on two remote machines - and was pretty painless.
I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 so was fairly easy. I followed the instructions from here - How to mount a remote ssh filesystem using sshfs.
So I did:
# apt-get install sshfs # adduser andy fuse # mkdir /mnt/fowler /mnt/rush # chown andy.andy /mnt/fowler /mnt/rush
Then (after logging out and in again to refresh my groups list):
$ sshfs fowler:/home/andy /mnt/fowler $ sshfs rush:/home/andy /mnt/rush $ ls -l /mnt/fowler ...stuff... $ ls -l /mnt/rush ...stuff...
Note: sshfs fowler:~ /mnt/fowler didn't seem to work. I don't know why, I suspect it should.
Since I use KeyChain for my SSH keys, I usually have those loaded by the time I want to look at a remote machine.
Anyway, it's fairly cool and dead easy.
One funny thing though was:
[metis:~]$ df -h /mnt/fowler
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on sshfs#fowler:/home/andy/
7.5T 0 7.5T 0% /mnt/fowler
[metis:~]$ df -h /mnt/rush
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on sshfs#rush:/home/andy/
7.5T 0 7.5T 0% /mnt/rush
A total of 15 Terabytes of storage :-) especially because fowler only has 40Gb of storage and rush is a 4Gb VPS :-)
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