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Howto: Mount a ftp drive in Ubuntu

When working with websites, you often need to move files to-and-fro a ftp server. This is usually done using a dedicated ftp application such as gftp. In this long run, this is a very time consuming process so why not just mount the ftp drive as a directory in your home folder?

The first thing we need to do is to get the package curlftpfs

sudo apt-get install curlftpfs

To mount the content of your ftp server at ftp.yourdomain.com in the directory ~/ftpfolder/ simply issue the command

curlftpfs user:pass@ftp.yourdomain.com ~/ftpfolder/

Unmounting is done in the usual way

sudo umount ~/ftpfolder/
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  1. June 9th, 2009 at 22:27 | #1

    Nice – Issuing FTP commands by hand has always sucked. I normally use ncftp but this seems easier. How about autofs – I haven’t googled it yet but there must be a autofs implementation?

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