Mount $ARCHIVE with SSHFS

This page explains how to mount $ARCHIVE on the HPC with SSHFS on your local workstation. Only $ARCHIVE is supported, not $HOME , $SCRATCH or any other file system on the HPC. For mounting $ARCHIVE on Windows, Kindly follow the section here

Step-by-step guide

Note

You might need sudo for the operations below.

1. Install SSHFS on your workstation.

   • Ubuntu:

   apt-get install sshfs
   

   • CentOS:

   yum install fuse-sshfs
   

   • MacOS:

   Install FUSE and SSHFS from their official website https://osxfuse.github.io/
   

2. On your terminal, mount the drive

   sshfs <NetID>@hpc-cng.abudhabi.nyu.edu:/archive/<NetID> <Your-Local-Mount-Point>
   

   For example, this command mount the $ARCHIVE of NetID wz22 to the local path $HOME/work-wz22

   sshfs wz22@hpc-cng.abudhabi.nyu.edu:/archive/wz22 $HOME/work-wz22
   

   These options might increase the speed.

   sshfs -o auto_cache -o cache=yes -o kernel_cache -o compression=no -o large_read -o big_writes -o Ciphers=arcfour <NetID>@hpc-cng.abudhabi.nyu.edu:/archive/<NetID> <Your-Local-Mount-Point>
   

3. Once done, unmount the drive.

   umount <Your-Local-Mount-Point>
   

Mount $ARCHIVE on Windows

1. Download the following applications and install them on your local Windows PC.

   • SSHFS-Win

   • WinFsp

2. Navigate to your Windows File explorer

3. Right click on This PC and select Map network drive:

   

4. Enter the details and click Finish:

   

   • The Drive corresponds to the local mountpoint

   • The Folder corresponds to the remote location.It should be noted that by default it connects to the /home and a relative path to the mounting point (/work) should be specified. So in this case the syntax should be as follows:

   \\sshfs\<net-id>@hpc-cng.abudhabi.nyu.edu\..\..\archive\<netid>
   

   • For example:

   \\sshfs\wz22@hpc-cng.abudhabi.nyu.edu\..\..\archive\wz22
   

5. You will be prompted for a password, after which you would have successfully mounted $ARCHIVE on to your local workstation.

   

Info

Reference: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh