Mount Google Drive on Linux

想要让 Google Drive 在 Linux 上自动挂载，而 Google Drive 的官方客户端不支持 Linux 系统，这里使用第三方工具 rclone 和 google-drive-ocamlfuse。

Google API & OAuth2

  1. Check Reference for more details.
  2. Create Google API project
  3. Create OAuth2 Client ID
    • Application type: Desktop app
    • save client_id and client_secret
  4. Add users in OAuth Users in Test (7 days) or Publish App

rclone

install

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curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
cd rclone-*-linux-amd64

sudo cp rclone /usr/bin/
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/rclone
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/rclone

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1
sudo cp rclone.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/
sudo mandb

exec

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rclone config

FAQ

  • fusermount: option allow_other only allowed if ‘user_allow_other’ is set in/etc/fuse.conf 
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    sudo vim /etc/fuse.conf # add `user_allow_other`

google-drive-ocamlfuse

install

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuse

mount

  • exec below command to get verification_code 
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    google-drive-ocamlfuse -debug -headless -id `client_id` -secret `client_secret`
  • write verification_code in ~/.gdfuse/default/config
  • create mountpoint: mkdir ~/GoogleDrive
  • mount: google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/GoogleDrive
  • check via df -h

FAQ

  • ls: cannot access ‘GoogleDrive’: Input/output error 
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    fusermount -u ~/GoogleDrive
  • ls: cannot access ‘GoogleDrive’: Transport endpoint is not connected 
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    fusermount -u ~/GoogleDrive
  • SOCKS5 Connect Timeout 
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    export https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:7890
    export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:7890

Reference

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