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.