Once you are done, we will unmount the filesystem FUSE using the command: fusermount -u ~/migoogledrive We will do this by typing in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) mkdir ~/migoogledriveįinally, we will mount our google unit using command: google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/migoogledriveĪfter this, we can access the files from the Terminal or from the file manager. Now we can close the web browser and create a mount point for our Google Drive files. Once authorization is granted, all necessary configuration files and folders will be created automatically.Īfter successful authentication, we will see the following message in the terminal: When run for the first time, the utility will open the web browser and will ask us for permission to access our Google Drive files. Once installed, we are going to run the following command to start google-drive-ocamlfuse utility from terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T): google-drive-ocamlfuse Sudo apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuse Use Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa To install it in Ubuntu 18.04 we will write in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T): Will provide us support for multiple Google Drive accounts, handling of duplicate files, access to the trash directory and more. It has read / write access to common files and folders, read-only access to Google sheets and slides. Google-drive-ocamlfuse will allow us to mount our Google Drive on a Gnu / Linux system. FUSE is a project that allows users to create virtual file systems. Google-drive-ocamlfuse is a FUSE file system for Google Drive which is written in OCaml.

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