ECE497 Mounting dfs/afs in Linux
You can set up your Linux box to directly mount your afs and dfs files. The Rose-Hulman Linux Users' Group has a nice page with the details .
After installing sshfs
I added the following to my /etc/fstab
file:
sshfs#username@dfs.Rose-hulman.edu:/MyDocs/username /home/username/MyDocs fuse user,noauto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 sshfs#username@dfs.rose-hulman.edu:/Users/Y/username /home/username/dfs-home fuse user,noauto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 sshfs#username@afs.rose-hulman.edu: /home/username/afs-home fuse user,noauto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
You'll have to replace username
with your login name. Then create the mount points:
cd ~ mkdir MyDocs mkdir dfs-home mkdir afs-home
Now you can mount your files by using:
cd ~ mount dfs-home cd dfs-home ls
You should now see your dfs files. You can unmount using:
cd ~ sudo umount