Maybe you need to work on remote projects, maybe you have multiple computers running different OS’ and you find yourself always going back and forth between them or maybe you just need to access a server. So how would you go about it?
You could use a cloud file hosting servive and sync everything across your computers, but depending on your needs that can get expensive. You could use an USB stick or external HDD/SSD, but if you run different OS’ with different filesystems that can quickly become an unnecessary headache. You can also use a FPT client like Filezilla but you can’t work on the remote filesystem unless you copy the file(s) on your local machine first.
If you don’t already have a system in place that works for you, you should take a look at SSHFS – a file system in user space that uses the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to mount a remote file system.
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