#Summary
mirror-mount
Overview
I wrote this simple script to automate the mounting of directories from one of more remote machines. It deduces the directories to mount from the remote machine by looking at the directory structore on the local machine.
mirror-mount.sh <BaseDirectoryOnLocalMachine>
where <BaseDirectoryOnLocalMachine> refers to the base directory on the local machine that contains sub-directories with names such as <HostName1>, <HostName2>, <HostName3>.
The script looks for leaf folders under each of the hostname directories listed above and mounts the same path from that hostname.
Prerequisites
You need sshfs installed.
Examples
Example 1
Let's assume that the following directory structure exists on the local machine:
├── A/
│ ├── B/
│ │ ├── Hostname_1/
│ │ │ ├── AA/
│ │ │ │ ├── AAA/
│ │ │ ├── EE/
$ mirror-mount.sh /A/B/
Invoking autmount.sh like that leads to the following commands getting executed:
$ umount /A/B/HostName_1/AA/AAA
$ mount ${USER}@HostName_1:/AA/AAA /A/B/HostName_1/AA/AAA
$ umount /A/B/HostName_1/EE
$ mount ${USER}@HostName_1:/EE /A/B/HostName_1/EE
Example 2
Let's assume that the following directory structure exists on the local machine:
├── A/
│ ├── B/
│ │ ├── Hostname_1/
│ │ │ ├── AA/
│ │ │ │ ├── AAA/
│ │ │ ├── BB/
│ │ │ │ ├── BBA/
│ │ │ │ ├── BBB/
│ │ ├── Hostname_4/
│ │ │ ├── DD/
│ │ │ │ ├── DDA/
│ │ │ │ │ ├── DDAA/
$ mirror-mount.sh /A/B/
Invoking autmount.sh like that leads to the following commands getting executed:
$ umount /A/B/HostName_1/AA/AAA
$ mount ${USER}@HostName_1:/AA/AAA /A/B/HostName_1/AA/AAA
$ umount /A/B/HostName_1/BB/BBA
$ mount ${USER}@HostName_1:/BB/BBA /A/B/HostName_1/BB/BBA
$ umount /A/B/HostName_1/BB/BBB
$ mount ${USER}@HostName_1:/BB/BBB /A/B/HostName_1/BB/BBB
$ umount /A/B/HostName_4/DD/DDA/DDAA
$ mount ${USER}@HostName_4:/DD/DDA/DDAA /A/B/HostName_4/DD/DDA/DDAA
ToDos
- Add documentation about the remote prefix file.
- Add documentation about the
DEBUG_variable. - Better error handling.