Mounted Digital Ocean cloud file system with sshfs on local Xubuntu Thunar. Razor-sharp beauty of Linux!

sshfs will mount a remote file system locally and make it available in the desktop file manager. Stupid simple procedure for something this complex.

Make a local directory as mount point somewhere:

mkdir /media/cloudfs

Mount remote filesystem with :

sudo sshfs -o allow_other [email protected]:/ /media/cloudfs/

Now I can edit CMS template files locally on xubuntu by hard-linking them from my remote /home/ directory (where I have write access) to the webroot /var/www/site/ directory.