Mount File System via SSH on Ubuntu

This is a really handy to know if you work across multiple computers and want to use file systems over ssh this is handy when you don’t have vpdn at your disposal…

Firstly install sshfs by popping the following into a terminal…

sudo apt-get install sshfs

Once that is installed you will be able to mount file systems via SSH.  A sensible way to mount them is to create a mount point in ‘/media’.

cd /media
sudo mkdir sharename
sudo chown username sharename
sshfs username@hostname:/path /media/sharename

Obviously you will need to replace username and sharename with the right criteria but I hope you get the idea!