Google Drive is a fantastic cloud storage service that allows you to upload, share, and sync data across several computers. Other sub-services that are part of an office suite, such as Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, are included in Google Drive. The cloud storage is free up to 15 Gigabytes (GB), but there are additional premium alternatives open up to 30 Terabytes (TB).
On the other hand, google-drive-ocamlfuse is an OCaml-based FUSE-based file system for Google Drive. It allows you to access your Google Drive from a Linux computer. The project is maintained on GitHub, where the most recent development version can be found.
In this brief tutorial I will demonstrate How To Mount Google Drive on Ubuntu / Debian Linux and Upload files or Directories to the drive.
Features of google-drive-ocamlfuse
google-drive-ocamlfuse features include the following:
- Ordinary files and folders have full read/write access.
- Access to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides on a read-only basis (exported to configurable formats).
- Support for multiple accounts.
- Handling of duplicate files.
- Garbage collection (.Trash directory).
- Permissions and ownership in Unix.
- Symbolic connections
- When streaming, read-ahead buffers are used.
- Getting access to content that has been shared with you (requires configuration).
- Support that is driven by the team.
- Support for Service Accounts.
- Support for OAuth2 on Devices.
Install google-drive-ocamlfuse on Ubuntu / Debian Linux
We will install google-drive-ocamlfuse on different Linux distributions.
Install google-drive-ocamlfuse on Ubuntu
Run the following command to install google-drive-ocamlfuse on Ubuntu:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/google-drive-ocamlfuse-beta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuseInstall google-drive-ocamlfuse on Debian
On Debian we will install Install google-drive-ocamlfuse as follows:
sudo apt install -y software-properties-common dirmngr
sudo cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/alessandro-strada-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list << EOF
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alessandro-strada/ppa/ubuntu xenial main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/alessandro-strada/ppa/ubuntu xenial main
EOF
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys AD5F235DF639B041
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y google-drive-ocamlfuseInstall google-drive-ocamlfuse on Arch (Bonus)
Use the following command to install google-drive-ocamlfuse on Arch Linux:
$ yaourt -S google-drive-ocamlfuseMounting Google Drive on Ubuntu / Debian Linux
Launch google-drive-ocamlfuse to set your Google drive folder.
$ google-drive-ocamlfuseWhen you Launch google-drive-ocamlfuse it will launch your regular browser and prompt you to log in to your Google account. Go through the process of logging in. You’ll receive a success message if it’s successful. The browser can now be closed.
Create a mount point for Google Drive
Let’s make a subdirectory under the home folder.
mkdir ~/MyGDriveTo inform google-drive-ocamlfuse to mount your Google Drive folder at the specified location, run the following command.
google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/MyGDrive Check if the directory is mounted:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 2.0M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2 234G 187G 35G 85% /
tmpfs 7.8G 214M 7.6G 3% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop1 56M 56M 0 100% /snap/core18/2246
/dev/loop2 101M 101M 0 100% /snap/dukto/16
/dev/loop3 56M 56M 0 100% /snap/core18/2253
/dev/loop0 128K 128K 0 100% /snap/bare/5
/dev/loop5 165M 165M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161
/dev/loop4 62M 62M 0 100% /snap/core20/1242
/dev/loop6 219M 219M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/77
/dev/loop7 248M 248M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/87
/dev/loop8 66M 66M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519
/dev/loop9 63M 63M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1506
/dev/loop10 33M 33M 0 100% /snap/snapd/13640
/dev/loop12 219M 219M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72
/dev/loop11 51M 51M 0 100% /snap/snap-store/547
/dev/nvme0n1p1 511M 5.3M 506M 2% /boot/efi
/dev/loop13 261M 261M 0 100% /snap/kde-frameworks-5-core18/32
/dev/loop15 55M 55M 0 100% /snap/snap-store/558
/dev/loop16 140M 140M 0 100% /snap/skype/190
/dev/loop17 43M 43M 0 100% /snap/snapd/14066
tmpfs 1.6G 28K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/loop18 135M 135M 0 100% /snap/skype/194
google-drive-ocamlfuse 15G 62M 15G 1% /home/frank/MyGDriveNow, check how well the synchronization works. In the following screen-shot you see that the files in My Google Drive has been synced to my Computer Locally.
Upload Files to Google Drive mounted on Linux
To upload files to Google Drive, Drag and drop file to ~/MyGDrive folder:
Here are the files we drag and drop in ~MyGDrive:
Now we can confirm if they have been uploaded to Google Drive:
As you can see in the screen-shot above that upload is successful
Conclusion
Our tutorial on How To Mount Google Drive on Ubuntu and Upload Files has come to a conclusion. We hope you found this information helpful. Cheers!
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