sshfs is a way that you can view files on a server in your own finder as if they are on your computer. This is very helpful and convenient for viewing many images/plots from the output of a program, or viewing large files on the server, e.g. bams or Robj.
On macOS, you'll need to install "OSXFuse" for low level filesystem stuff before you install SSHFS. I installed via Homebrew (brew command):
brew cask install osxfuse
brew install sshfs
Example command:
sshfs obotvinnik@tscc.sdsc.edu:/home/obotvinnik/projects/tasic2016/analysis/tasic_v1/majiq_v1 /home/Users/olga/majiq_v1
Broken down, the command is:
sshfs obotvinnik@tscc.sdsc.edu:[folder that you want from the server] [where you want to see it on your laptop]
Normally, sshfs doesn't follow symbolic links To follow any symlinks (soft links) that you make. Here's the command to make it do that:
sshfs -o follow_symlinks obotvinnik@tscc.sdsc.edu:/oasis/tscc/scratch/obotvinnik tscc
- Volumes may get unmounted
- Can't use it as
root - If you mount a volume, then switch users, the other user can still access the volume (unsafe)
Here's the command I've been using:
sshfs obotvinnik@tscc.sdsc.edu:/home/obotvinnik $HOME/Desktop/tscc
umount ~/Desktop/tscc
or drag it to the trash