How to Mount a Linux directory from a different PC to your local Linux PC?

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ksuralta picture ksuralta · Oct 24, 2008 · Viewed 86.8k times · Source

Is there a way to mount a Linux directory from a different PC to your local Linux PC? How?

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Georg Zimmer picture Georg Zimmer · Oct 24, 2008

sshfs is very nice, and easy to use

sshfs user@remotesystem:/remote/dir /some/local/dir

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