How to Mount Google Drive as a Disk on a Linux Server

The following are the steps to mount Google Drive as a Disk on a Linux Server:

Installation

1. Go to Google Cloud Console

2. Create an instance

4. Connect to your instance either through SSH option or use gcloud option

5. Run sudo -i command for accessing the root directory

6. Run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa

7. Run apt update command

8. Run apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuse.

Once this has completed we need to configure google-drive-ocamlfuse

9. Now we open the VNC Viewer panel.

10. We open the Terminal from the System Tools & run the command google-drive-ocamlfuse

This command will create a folder (~/.gdfuse/default) containing the configuration files for the application and will also open a web browser asking you to confirm that you want the application to access your Google Drive.

11. Once access has been authorized the web browser will close and you will be returned to your Terminal window. You can then mount your Google Drive folder in your filesystem

12. The next step is to run mkdir -p ~/Drive

13. Next, run google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/Drive

When we've done this you should see the files appearing as part of your new ~/Drive folder.


These steps indicate the process of mounting  Google Drive as a Disk on a Linux server.

How to Automount the Google Drive

1. Open a Terminal session and create a shell script named gdfuse in /usr/bin

2. Copy and paste the following lines into the script changing $username to match your username:

#!/bin/bash

su $username -l -c "google-drive-ocamlfuse -label $1 $*"

exit 0

3. Give the new script exec permissions:

$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/gdfuse

4. Now edit /etc/fstab    $ sudo nano /etc/fstab    

(Remember to change uid and gid and /path/to/your/gdrive in the line below to the values of your username and of the path to your Google Drive folder accordingly.)

5. For # Google Drive Automount

Now we run  gdfuse#default /drive fuse uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

6. Lastly, run  $ sudo mount /path/to/your/gdrive  to mount your Google Drive

To test if the Google Drive works, we need to reboot the workstation and log back in again. After the desktop is ready we can see the Drive folder once more in place and while clicking on the folder the Google Drive files should be visible again.