For mounting a ChemIT cluster's share, via sshfs. Instructions for both Linux and a Mac.

See also

• Directory mounting using ssh

Step-by-step guide: Linux

1. Make sure that sshfs is installed. If not, install it.
2.  Create a mount point in your home directory.
   mkdir home/[user]/[clustername]

3. Add yourself to the fuse user list
   sudo gpasswd -a $USER fuse

4. mount the external directory to your local machine
   sshfs -o idmap=user [NetID]@[clustername].chem.cornell.edu:/home/[NetID]/ /home/[user]/[clustername]
   (The last directory listed is on your own desktop, obviously, and you should replace [user] with your username on the cluster, along with entering your cluster's name. Lleave everything else the same.

5. Marvel. Oh, and if you want to unmount type
   fusermount -u /home/[user]/[clustername]

Notes: The researcher recommends against adding stuff to the fstab for automatic mount upon restart. Another easy way is simply add the following in your .bashrc
alias=[clustername]mount='sshfs -o idmap=user [NetID]@[clustername].chem.cornell.edu:/home/[user]/ /home/[user]/[clustername]'

Step-by-step guide: Mac OS X

1. Go to http://osxfuse.github.io download and install OSXFUSE.

2. Restart.

3. Go back to http://osxfuse.github.io, download and install SSHFS

4. make a mount point in your home directory.
mkdir /Users/[user]/[clustername]

5. Skipping point 2 in the Linux list above, go directly to the command:
sshfs -o idmap=user [NetID]@[clustername].chem.cornell.edu:/home/[NetID]/ /Users/[user]/[clustername]

6. Marvel. The unmount command is now simply:
umount /Users/[user]/[clustername]

7. You can make an alias, just as described above to do this quicker.

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