Mounting remote filesystems with sshfs

Getting direct access over ssh is simplified greatly by sshfs, a fuse based file system. To get started, install sshfs with your favourite package manager:

$ sudo pacman -S sshfs

To connect to a remote file system, you just use the following:

$ sshfs host: mountpoint

Much like ssh, the host argument can take on the format of user@host if you’re logged in as a user that doesn’t correspond to the remote machine.

When you’re done, unmounting the filesystem is done like so:

$ fusermount -u mountpoint