package google-drive-ocamlfuse
Install
Dune Dependency
Authors
Maintainers
Sources
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Description
google-drive-ocamlfuse is a FUSE-based file system for Google Drive, written in OCaml.
Published: 18 Feb 2019
README
FUSE filesystem over Google Drive
google-drive-ocamlfuse is a FUSE filesystem for Google Drive, written in OCaml. It lets you mount your Google Drive on Linux.
Features (see what's new)
Full read/write access to ordinary files and folders
Read-only access to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides (exported to configurable formats)
Multiple account support
Duplicate file handling
Access to trash (
.Trash
directory)Unix permissions and ownership
Symbolic links
Read-ahead buffers when streaming
Accessing content shared with you (requires configuration)
Team Drive Support
Resources
Wiki: includes installation instructions, and more details about configuration, and authorization
Authorization
Please be sure to have a look at the authorization page, to understand how the authorization process works, and to discover all the available options.
Getting started
Installation
I've uploaded .deb packages for Ubuntu to my PPA. In order to to install it, use the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuse
New beta versions are available on this PPA. If you want to test them, use the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/google-drive-ocamlfuse-beta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuse
For other installation options, please refer to the wiki.
How to build
Requirements
OCaml >= 4.02.3
Findlib >= 1.2.7
ocamlfuse >= 2.7.1
gapi-ocaml >= 0.3.6
sqlite3-ocaml >= 1.6.1
Configuration and installation
To build the executable, run
dune build @install
To install it, run (as root, if your user doesn't have enough privileges)
dune install
To uninstall anything that was previously installed, execute
dune uninstall
Usage
The first time, you can run google-drive-ocamlfuse
without parameters:
google-drive-ocamlfuse
This command will create the default application directory (~/.gdfuse/default
), containing the configuration file config
(see the wiki page for more details about configuration). And it will start a web browser to obtain authorization to access your Google Drive. This will let you modify default configuration before mounting the filesystem.
Then you can mount the filesystem:
google-drive-ocamlfuse mountpoint
If you have more than one account, you can run:
google-drive-ocamlfuse -label label [mountpoint]
Using label
to distinguish different accounts. The program will use the directory ~/.gdfuse/label
to host configuration, application state, and file cache. No file is shared among different accounts, so you can have a different configuration for each one.
To unmount the filesystem, issue this command:
fusermount -u mountpoint
Troubleshooting
This application is still under testing, so there are probably bugs to discover and fix. To be extra sure, if you want, you can mount the filesystem in read-only mode, modifying the configuration (see the documentation), to avoid any write attempt to the server. Anyway, the rm
command will simply trash your file, so you should always be able to rollback any changes. If you have problems, you can turn on debug logging:
google-drive-ocamlfuse -debug mountpoint
In ~/.gdfuse/default
you can find curl.log
that will track every request to the Google Drive API, and gdfuse.log
that will log FUSE operations and cache management. If something goes wrong, you can try clearing the cache, with this command:
google-drive-ocamlfuse -cc
If something still doesn't work, try starting from scratch removing everything in ~/.gdfuse/default
. In this case you will need to reauthorize the application.
Note that in order to reduce latency, the application will query the server and check for changes only every 60 seconds (configurable). So, if you make a change to your documents (server side), you won't see it immediately in the mounted filesystem.
Note also that Google Documents will be exported read-only.
Support
If you have questions, suggestions or want to report a problem, you may want to open an issue on github.