How to mount a remote drive as a real drive?

Halobok · 02-29-2012, 03:57 PM

Hi,

I'm trying to restore my HDD using photorec but I don't have any space to save restored files. So I installed sshfs to my notebook and mounted that drive using ssfs to my desktop. I run photorec and select correct disk and arguments, everything fine until I try to choose the extraction folder. Photorec simply ignores sshfs folder, they are invisible.

Once again, I'm not trying to restore from sshfs, I'm restoring from a real hdd and I want to save/dump restored files to sshfs.

jschiwal · 02-29-2012, 04:39 PM

You could use nfs to share a directory on your laptop. Samba might work as well if you mount the share using the cifs file system type.

hydraMax · 02-29-2012, 04:47 PM

Did you mount the sshfs as the same user that is running photorec? IIRC sshfs is fused-based, and so even the root user won't see the files of a regular user.

jefro · 02-29-2012, 05:21 PM

You may be able to mount any of the network aware file systems. That being nfs as common but things like cifs/samba, ftp, iscis come to mind as mountable.

What is the topology of the lan/wan?

Halobok · 03-01-2012, 03:39 PM

Topology is wifi

jefro · 03-01-2012, 10:01 PM

I meant is this a lan or do you have to secure it from wan or over wan?

Halobok · 03-02-2012, 03:04 PM

no security needed , home network.