Mounting a Remote Directory through SSH using SSHFS

Assumptions

1. The target machine have SSH up and running
2. You have valid credentials to connect to the target machine through SSH

Procedure

Suppose we want to mount directory /srv/ftp to /mnt/remote, on remote machine defined on ~/.ssh/config¹ as target.

1. Install SSHFS
2. Prepare an empty directory, e.g. /mnt/remote/.
3. Mount:

   sshfs target:/srv/ftp /mnt/remote

Unmount using umount /mnt/remote or fusermount -u /mnt/remote

Footnotes

1. See https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/config ↩