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Installed Program:
sshfs
Installed Libraries:
None
Installed Directories:
None
Introduction to Sshfs
The Sshfs package contains a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. This is useful for mounting a remote computer that you have ssh access to as a local filesystem. This allows you to drag and drop files or run shell commands on the remote files as if they were on your local computer.
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Note
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 13.0 platform.
Package Information
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Download (HTTP): https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/releases/download/sshfs-3.7.5/sshfs-3.7.5.tar.xz
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Download MD5 sum: 5d9d4575d5c0b535857f41f723e92c85
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Download size: 52 KB
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Estimated disk space required: 0.9 MB
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Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Sshfs Dependencies
Required
Fuse-3.18.1, GLib-2.86.4, and OpenSSH-10.2p1.
Optional
docutils-0.22.4 (required to build the man page)
Installation of Sshfs
Install Sshfs by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. && ninja
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
Using Sshfs
To mount an ssh server you need to be able to log into the server. For example, to mount your remote home folder to the local ~/examplepath (the directory must exist and you must have permissions to write to it):
sshfs example.com:/home/userid ~/examplepath
When you've finished work and want to unmount it again:
fusermount3 -u ~/examplepath
You can also mount an sshfs
filesystem at boot by adding an entry similar to the following in
the /etc/fstab file:
userid@example.com:/path /media/path fuse.sshfs _netdev,IdentityFile=/home/userid/.ssh/id_rsa 0 0See man 1 sshfs and man 8 mount.fuse3 for all available mount options.