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Want to play around with sshfs? Sshfs allows you to mount a filesystem of any computer you have ssh access to.
This is all you need to do after booting your PC or Mac with the Ubuntu 5.10 (breezy badger) live cd:

$ wget -O - http://nerdnotes.org/scripts/sshfs.sh.php | sudo sh

Scared to just execute a shell script from the web?

Check it out with:

$ wget -O - http://nerdnotes.org/scripts/sshfs.sh.php | less

#!/bin/sh
#
# LiveCD demo script for playing around with sshfs
#
# Run this script after a fresh boot of the ubuntu 5.10
# (Breezy Badger) live cd.
#
# Copyright (C) 2006  brammeleman@nerdnotes.org
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# update sources.list for using the universe repositories
TMPFILE=`mktemp`
sed '/universe/s/# //' /etc/apt/sources.list > $TMPFILE
mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.old
mv $TMPFILE /etc/apt/sources.list
chmod go+r /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
# install sshfs packages
apt-get -y install sshfs
# load kernel module
modprobe fuse
# instead of adding ubuntu to the 'fuse' group
# just...
chgrp ubuntu /usr/bin/fusermount
chmod u+s /usr/bin/fusermount
# create mount point
if [ ! -d /home/ubuntu/remotefs ]
then
        echo Creating mountpoint remotefs
        su - ubuntu mkdir /home/ubuntu/remotefs
fi
# usage hint
echo To mount the stuff directory on example.com, use:
echo
echo \$ sshfs user@example.com:stuff remotefs
echo
echo
echo To unmount:
echo
echo fusermount -u remotefs
exit 0

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