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Now that Google Drive is available, how do we mount it to a Linux filesystem? Similar solutions exist for Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files.

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Share your support: plus.google.com/s/%23DriveForLinux/posts – Travis R Apr 25 '12 at 6:31

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An open source client for Google Drive has just been released: Grive.

For now, the application is considered experimental and it lacks full sync, but it can upload and download new or changed files already (so you can access your files offline). What it can't do yet is: wait for changes and automatically sync the files or delete files (when a file is deleted locally, it's ignored and when it's deleted remotely, it's reuploaded if it exists locally).

Sources and binaries are available on Github. A third party, webupd8, has provided a PPA for Ubuntu.

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Currently a dead link - try: github.com/Grive/grive – Poldie Jul 22 '12 at 20:24
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Thanks, I've updated the url. – briankb Aug 8 '12 at 8:50
According to the docs, grive seems not to be able to access Google Docs, but for that the other answer could help: <code.google.com/p/google-docs-fs/wiki/OnlineManual>;. Am I right that they complement each other? – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev Oct 2 '12 at 10:06
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Isn't that curious that grive tries to mimick the "syncing" behaviour of a Gogle Drive client, rather then following the traditional Unix approach of mounting a filesystem? For me, it would seem more convenient to decide which file on the remote FS I want to open, and only then the transfer would happen. What if I don't want to sync every file? Of course, syncing rather then mounting can make sense inside an implementation of a distributed FS, rather then centralized remote FS -- look at git-annex as a possible implementaton of a distributed FS. Mounting then could be made on top of sync. – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev Oct 2 '12 at 10:15
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There is an SDK available, so someone will probably make a linux solution soon. There is also a drive on Google+ going on right now to get Google to add a Linux client, in addition to the Windows, Mac, and Android clients (not to mention their plans for an iOS client.)

Then they will be on par with Dropbox :) (with a bit more extra free space by default)

UPDATE: Google has announced a Linux client is on its way. :)

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Yeah, they announced it's on it's way. But still no Linux client. I was hoping for an implementation by the open community with FUSE or something... – polemon Jun 13 '12 at 17:56
Is there a source for this announcement? – Poldie Sep 21 '12 at 22:41
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A package from Luca Invernizzi exists to do so. See http://code.google.com/p/google-docs-fs/wiki/OnlineManual.

For Ubuntu:

First you need to add the packages provided by Luca and available in his PPA (Ubuntu 11.10 only at present):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:invernizzi/google-docs-fs
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-docs-fs

Once everything that’s needed has been installed log out and back in.

  1. Open Nautilus Create a new folder in your Home folder titled Drive
  2. Open a Terminal and run: gmount Drive username@gmail.com
  3. Input your password
  4. Your Google Drive is now mounted in the Drive folder

Source: How to access Google Drive via Nautilus in Ubuntu

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It seems it's only for Google Docs. The docs are just a part of Google Drive; am I right? But then there's grive from the other answer to access everything but the docs. – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev Oct 2 '12 at 10:07
On Ubuntu 12.04 (ARM, not the usual i386) I could wget and install with dpkg --install the "gdrive" package form there -- after apt-get install python-gdata python-fuse. – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev Nov 29 '12 at 23:09
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I've just discovered insync. Dunno how good can be. Seems to be closed sourced.

Here it is: https://forums.insynchq.com/discussion/1545/insync-for-linux-beta-10-0-9-25

fyi

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Insync is a Linux client for Google Drive with the following features:

  • multiple Google accounts support
  • offline Google docs editing
  • right-click share in the context menu
  • recent changes notifications
  • external hard drive support
  • support for the most popular distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE)
  • support for the most popuar desktop environments (Unity, MATE, GNOME Shell, Cinnamon, KDE 4, Xfce)
  • support for multiple file managers (Nautilus, Caja, Nemo, Dolphin, Thunar)

Learn more at insynchq.com/linux.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of Insync.

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Insync is actually the best client for Google Driver around

https://www.insynchq.com

It's full featured, and free during the beta phase.

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