UNC Linux Users Group

[Tom Roche <Tom_Roche AT unc.edu>]

Gary Bishop Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:38 PM
> Use SSHFS. I did and have loved it. Works great. Now I don't care
> about what file system is on the other end.

I adapted

https://lug.rose-hulman.edu/wiki/HOWTO_Use_sshfs_to_mount_AFS/DFS_home

as follows (TODO: wikify somewhere) for UNC and ubuntu=9.04:

0 Install FUSE and sshfs

$ sudo apt-get install sshfs

1 Create an AFS mountpoint

E.g. for my UNC AFS homespace

$ mkdir -p ~/afs/home

2 Mount an AFS directory to your mountpoint

I guessed server=isis.unc.edu (YMMV):

$ nslookup isis.unc.edu
...
> Name: isis.unc.edu
> Address: 152.2.200.124
> Name:    isis.unc.edu
> Address: 152.2.200.125
> Name:    isis.unc.edu
> Address: 152.2.200.122
> Name:    isis.unc.edu
> Address: 152.2.200.123
$ sshfs tr AT isis.unc.edu: ~/afs/home
<usual SSH login fu omitted>
$ ls -al ~/afs/home | head
> total 180
> drwxr-xr-x 1  155088     203  4096 2009-08-05 22:52 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 tlroche tlroche  4096 2009-09-05 16:11 ..
> -rw------- 1  155088     203   303 2008-06-04 14:00 .bash_history
> lrwxr-xr-x 1  155088     203    54 2008-04-15 15:02 .bash_profile -> 
> /afs/isis.unc.edu/common/etc/scripts/bash_profile.USER
...

3 Automate mount with /etc/fstab

$ sudo emacs -nw -q /etc/fstab
$ diff -u /etc/fstab~ /etc/fstab
> --- /etc/fstab~     2009-08-02 11:08:04.000000000 -0400
> +++ /etc/fstab      2009-09-05 16:19:36.000000000 -0400
> @@ -18,3 +18,5 @@
...
> +# SSHFS mount of UNC AFS home
> +sshfs#tr AT isis.unc.edu:                     /home/tlroche/afs/home fuse 
> user,noauto                 0      0

  then [logout, login] and run

$ ls -al afs/home/ | head
> total 180
> drwxr-xr-x 1  155088     203  4096 2009-08-05 22:52 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 tlroche tlroche  4096 2009-09-05 16:11 ..
> lrwxr-xr-x 1  155088     203    40 2009-06-16 10:05 .##%2Amail%2A#3282la6# 
> -> tr AT bc16-n13.isis.unc.edu.3282:1244014502
> -rw------- 1  155088     203   303 2008-06-04 14:00 .bash_history
> lrwxr-xr-x 1  155088     203    54 2008-04-15 15:02 .bash_profile -> 
> /afs/isis.unc.edu/common/etc/scripts/bash_profile.USER
...

   (no prompt? guess somebody's caching something)

Sweet! Gotta check from home, then do my other AFS mounts.

Thanks for the tip, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche AT pobox.com>