10. Now create a mount point say google-drive in your home directory and mount as:
$ mkdir ~/google-drive $ google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/google-drive
You may check the mount point and disk space usages of your mounted Google Drive using df command as shown below.
If you have more than one account, you can run use following command.
$ google-drive-ocamlfuse -label label [mountpoint]
The label options is used to distinguish different accounts under directory ~/.gdfuse/label to host configuration, application state, and file cache.
Do remember no files are shared among different accounts, so that you can have a different configuration for each Google account.
11. To unmount the Google Drive, you have to run:
$ fusermount -u ~/google-drive
For more options and help, run google-drive-ocamlfuse -help command to get all the available commands and switches.
Mount Google Drive Automatically in Linux
You may mount more than one drive at a time and also mount Google drive automatically at boot.
12. create a shell script gdfuse in the directory /usr/bin as root, with the below content.
#!/bin/bash su $USERNAME -l -c "google-drive-ocamlfuse -label $1 $*" exit 0
13. Make it executable.
# chmod 755 /usr/bin/gdfuse
14. Create mountpoint say /mnt/gdrive and give ownership to user ‘avi‘.
# mkdir /mnt/gdrive # chown avi.avi /mnt/gdrive
15. Next, open and edit file /etc/fstab and add below line at the bottom. Save and exit.
gdfuse#default /mnt/gdrive fuse uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
Take extra care of ‘uid‘ and ‘gid‘. Change it as user’s uid and gid.
16. To mount the google drive now, run:
# mount /mnt/gdrive
For more information about how to include and use multiple Google accounts, see the google-drive-ocamlfuse wiki.
That’s all for now. Installing from source is not a big deal as well and it is pretty straight forward, as tested on Debian. What you think about the project and its setup. Also there is no answer from Google on official Drive client even after 3 years, so what do you think. Is Google Drive Ocamlfuse a life savior? Please let us know your valuable thought in the comments below.
I guess this article is pretty old now, but I tried it today and, after installing lots of additional packages on my Debian machine, I got it working. As noted, it’s pretty slow. Also, $USERNAME didn’t seem to exist but maybe this is just shorthand for inserting the real username of the google drive being mounted?
There is something strange about the way your code blocks are displaying; ~ is changed to – in my browser (Firefox)
Does anyone know how this method compares to eg grive/grive2? The latter methods, I’ve had bad experiences with, so I’ll try this new method now, thanks a lot for the article…
It is too slow. See my comment on March 28, 2016.
Is it possible to edit this to use lynx instead of “xdg-open”, “firefox” or “google-chrome”. Been following this to install on one of my headless servers which has no gui and therefore no graphical browser.
@Rob,
Not possible, better install GUI on Linux server to use Firefox or Chrome browser..
Only a Microsoft Windows Server administrator would think a GUI on a GNU/Linux server is a good idea. There are terminal file managers available for GNU/Linux; try integrating one or more of them with google-drive.
Was thinking the same thing, this might help you found this on the official github site.
Haven’t tried it myself, but it seems it is possible with a few work arounds or different steps.
https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/wiki/Headless-Usage-&-Authorization
When I try to give ownership to avi, it says “user is not found” .Any idea?
@Lim,
That’s an example user “Avi” used in the article, you should replace that user name with yours..
This caused Linux Mint to stop booting!
Thanks a lot folks, very useful, even if I have no knowledge about Linux (sorry my English, I do not speak English).
Hi,
I have had to change:
gdfuse#default /mnt/gdrive fuse uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
to:
gdfuse#default /mnt/google_drive fuse uid=1000,gid=1000,user 0 0
@Jacques,
Thanks for sharing the tip, but could you tell us why it needed and how you came to know? it will help us to correct the article with correct explanation. So, that end users will know more better about the command.
With the user options the user can mount and unmount the drive without the usage of sudo
Thank you very much for this tutorial. It is really very useful.
The question is what to do if you only have the command line and no GUI (so no browser too ;-).
Thank you.
google-drive-ocamlfuse on Lubuntu 14.04 is too slow. I tried to use vi to edit a text file in google-drive, when I pasted about 2KB text from clipboard, it took around 60 seconds. The same thing works smoothly on pCloud.com, it seems that pCloud do caching well.
Thanks for the guidelines! I successfully installed google-drive-ocamlfuse on Lubuntu 14.04.
google-drive-ocamlfuse doesn’t allow to change file timestamps. Commands “cp -p” or “rsync -a” always create files with present modification time. Therefore, rsync is useless.
I can’t get step 12 to work. It says label needs an argument.
i can not install it. have an error. can you help?
[root@server opam]# opam install google-drive-ocamlfuse
[WARNING] Running as root is not recommended
The following actions will be performed:
∗ install sqlite3 4.0.3 [required by google-drive-ocamlfuse]
∗ install google-drive-ocamlfuse 0.5.22
===== ∗ 2 =====
Do you want to continue ? [Y/n] y
=-=- Gathering sources =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
[google-drive-ocamlfuse] Archive in cache
[sqlite3] Archive in cache
=-=- Processing actions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
[ERROR] The compilation of sqlite3 failed at “ocaml setup.ml -build”.
Processing 1/2: [sqlite3: ocamlfind remove]
#=== ERROR while installing sqlite3.4.0.3 =====================================#
# opam-version 1.2.2
# os linux
# command ocaml setup.ml -build
# path /root/.opam/system/build/sqlite3.4.0.3
# compiler system (4.02.3)
# exit-code 1
# env-file /root/.opam/system/build/sqlite3.4.0.3/sqlite3-6418-1872ec.env
# stdout-file /root/.opam/system/build/sqlite3.4.0.3/sqlite3-6418-1872ec.out
# stderr-file /root/.opam/system/build/sqlite3.4.0.3/sqlite3-6418-1872ec.err
### stdout ###
# /usr/bin/ocamlopt.opt unix.cmxa -I /usr/lib64/ocaml/ocamlbuild /usr/lib64/ocaml/ocamlbuild/ocamlbuildlib.cmxa myocamlbuild.ml /usr/lib64/ocaml/ocamlbuild/ocamlbuild.cmx -o myocamlbuild
# Failure: pkg-config failed for cflags.
### stderr ###
# Package sqlite3 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
# Perhaps you should add the directory containing `sqlite3.pc’
# to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
# No package ‘sqlite3′ found
# E: Failure(“Command ”/usr/bin/ocamlbuild’ lib/libsqlite3_stubs.a lib/dllsqlite3_stubs.so lib/sqlite3.cma lib/sqlite3.cmxa lib/sqlite3.a lib/sqlite3.cmxs -tag debug’ terminated with error code 2″)
=-=- Error report -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
The following actions were aborted
∗ install google-drive-ocamlfuse 0.5.22
The following actions failed
∗ install sqlite3 4.0.3
No changes have been performed
=-=- sqlite3.4.0.3 troobleshooting =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=> This package relies on external (system) dependencies that may be missing. `opam depext sqlite3.4.0.3′ may help you find the correct installation for your system.
Do you yearn for a Linux client of Google Drive? Here is one for you. I have written this out of same frustration as you had. Please visit:
http://www.nulltrace.org/p/gosync.html
for more details.
@Himanshu,
First of all I would like to thank you for creating Linux Client for Google Drive and wishes you best of luck for this project. I definitely share this tool with our Tecmint article..
@Ravi Thanks! A new version of GoSync Google Drive client for linux is available to install from pip or github. Please visit https://github.com/hschauhan/gosync/releases/tag/v0.4 for more details.
v0.4 is more promising. Please use that can provide feedback to make it better!
Anothher way for automounting (in KDE)
I just added the commando ‘google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/google-drive’ to Menu -> System Settings -> Startup & Shutdown -> Autostart
works great
@v7peer,
Thanks for the tip, hope it will help KDE users..
Hi,
do you try this on OSX ?
If yes how do you proceed please ?
Thanks for all
@Bacoco,
We’ve tried on Ubuntu Linux flavors, not on OSX…
I got many error after $ opam init
like this
[WARNING] Errors while parsing flowtype.0.9.1 OPAM file, skipping.
[ERROR] Your version of OPAM (1.1.1) is not recent enough to read ~/.opam/repo/default/packages/flowtype/flowtype.0.9.2/opam. Upgrade OPAM to a more recent version (at least 1.2) to read this file correctly.
How to fix it ?
Whenever I run the google-drive-ocamlfuse It brings up a webpage that has an error on it..
400. That’s an error.
Error: invalid_request
Invalid response_type: code\\
Learn more
Request Details
That’s all we know.
were you able to authenticated it?
Hi!
If I use this FUSE method, I’ll be use local storage?
thanks.
Welcome and Good to know.
Keep connected!
Thanks for sharing the guidelines. I can’t see the Files / Directorties those are shared with me in the mount.
Please let me know how to view them as well.
I don’t know but the time you posted this comment it might be syncing.
Hope it is fixed now.