How To Use SSHFS to Mount Remote File Systems Over SSH

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Installing sshfs
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SSHFS is Linux based software that needs to be installed on your local computer.
On Ubuntu and Debian based systems it can be installed through apt-get.

sudo apt-get install sshfs

Mounting the Remote File System
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sudo mkdir /mnt/droplet <--replace "droplet" whatever you prefer

sudo sshfs -o allow_other,defer_permissions [email protected]:/ /mnt/droplet

If your droplet is configured for login via ssh key authorization, you will need to tell sshfs to use
your public keys with the following command.
You will be asked to enter the passphrase you used during the creation of your keys with ssh-keygen.

sudo sshfs -o allow_other,defer_permissions,IdentityFile=~/.ssh/id_rsa [email protected]:/ /mnt/droplet

Unmounting the Remote File System
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sudo umount /mnt/droplet

Permanently Mounting the Remote File System
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SSHFS also allows for setting up permanent mount points to remote file systems.
This would set a mount point that would persist through restarts of both your local machine and droplets.
In order to set up a permanent mount point, we will need to edit the /etc/fstab file on the local machine to automatically 
mount the file system each time the system is booted.

First we need to edit the /etc/fstab file with a text editor.

Scroll to the bottom of the file and add the following entry

sshfs#[email protected]:/ /mnt/droplet

Save the changes to /etc/fstab and reboot if necessary.