Mounting a remote drive at a local mount point
Having a local mount point to access the remote host filesystem is really helpful while carrying out both read and write data transfer operations. SSH is the common transfer protocol available in a network and hence, we can make use of it with sshfs which enables you to mount a remote filesystem to a local mount point. Let's see how to do it.
Getting ready
sshfs doesn't come by default with GNU/Linux distributions. Install sshfs by using a package manager. sshfs is an extension to the FUSE filesystem package that allows supported OSs to mount a wide variety of data as if it were a local filesystem.
For more information on FUSE, visit its website at http://fuse.sourceforge.net/.
How to do it...
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