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Installing SSHFS

For Macs:

You should be able to double click the downloaded packages to run

Install FUSE

Latest as of 2018/12/19

Install SSHFS

Latest as of 2018/12/19

Using SSHFS

Create a directory (or use an empty directory - has to be empty!)

mkdir -p ~/sshfs/home

Mount a remote drive to your local empty directory

sshfs USERNAME@tscc-login1.sdsc.edu:/home/USERNAME ~/sshfs/home -o follow_symlinks

• Replace USERNAME with your TSCC login name.
• Replace tscc-login1 with tscc-login2 if you prefer.
• The -o follow_symlinks will… follow symlinks within your mounted directory

(optional) Alias this command

Attach this command to something shorter so you don’t have to remember the full command. Add this to your ~/.bash_profile

For example, if my TSCC username is brianyee01 and my local mount directory is /Users/brianyee/sshfs/home, I could add the following line to my ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc file so I can mount simply by typing sshfs_home:

alias sshfs_home="sshfs brianyee01@tscc-login1.sdsc.edu:/home/brianyee01 /Users/brianyee/sshfs/home -o follow_symlinks"

“refresh” your bash profile/bashrc file to see changes:

source ~/.bash_profile

Navigate to the directory you created earlier, and you should be able to see your TSCC files!