Re: LUG: Symbolic link for AFS directory - Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:23 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Symbolic link for AFS directory

From : jpgoel@ncsu.[redacted]

Date : Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:23 -0500

I'd try using sshfs. "apt-get install sshfs". (This uses FUSE - Filesystem
in Userspace, with modules written to interconnect SSH and filesystem
creation in userspace, which is way way cool.)

Create the 'AFShome' directory (as your mountpoint).

Then:

$ sshfs jpgoel@remote-linux.eos.ncsu.[redacted]:/ncsu/jpgoel AFShome

I think you can edit /etc/fstab to do this on boot. Of course you could
alias the above command, eg "mountafs"

Best,

Jay

PS. It didn't occur to me to do this for the past 4 years until you asked
the question. Thanks!

On Fri, March 12, 2010 9:17 pm, asarkar3@ncsu.[redacted] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I create a symbolic link for my AFS home directory on Ubuntu. I
> tried:
> ln -s
> sftp://asarkar3@grendel.ece.ncsu.[redacted]/afs/unity.ncsu.edu/users/a/asarkar3/
> AFShome
>
> but it says the path could not be found. However when I do a 'Connect to
> Server' I am able to connect using the same path.
>
> Regards,
> Anirban
>

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