sshfs

sshfs lets you mount a remote filesystem using SSH.

I usually use sshfs to mount my phone onto my PC (I temporarily run an SSH server on phone using Termux).

Why I use sshfs

• It’s better than scp/rsync for sharing files, in my opinion.
• You could even mount filesystems from startup by default using /etc/fstab.

Caveats

• Since it uses FUSE, it can be a bit slow at times.
• If the SSH connection drops, sshfs can hang and you’d have to unmount. But that happens rarely, at least to me.

Mounting

sshfs -p 8022 user@example.com:/home/user mnt/

Here, we mount the remote user’s home directory to a directory named mnt/ in our machine.

NB: -p lets you connect to a different SSH port, in case you’re not using the standard port 22 for SSH.

Unmounting

Unmounting is as easy as:

fusermount -u mnt/