Mount google drive on command line using gvfs-google

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Recently, Arch linux ships gvfs-google package in order to mount Google Drive using Gnome Online Accounts (gvfs-goa). However, since I am using Cinnamon desktop rather than Gnome, it seems that this integration does not properly work.

As of now I used to sync Google Drive manually using drive. Is there a way to mount Google Drive using gvfs-google on the command line?

Did you solve this? I'm on XFCE. – Mark K Cowan Jan 13 '16 at 12:07 — Mark K Cowan, Jan 13 '16 at 12:07

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '17 at 21:30

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You need to install via pacman gnome-control-center and add your account from that Gnome component. Unfortunately, that means a ton of annoying Gnome dependencies come with this Gnome component to use the gvfs plugin for drive.

The other option is to install a bunch of ocaml dependencies with google-drive-ocamlfuse in AUR and go that route. I haven't been able to get google-drive-ocamlfuse to compile without creating soft link garbage on the filesystem.

answered Mar 09 '17 at 21:30

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According to [this issue](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/248) gnome-control-center should not run outside GNOME. – ntd Nov 01 '18 at 14:36

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 14 '18 at 13:16

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gio mount google-drive://[email protected]

GVFS Bug 796064 - impossible to mount

edited May 14 '18 at 13:16

Jeff Schaller

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answered May 14 '18 at 11:11

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Also useful for MTP devices. – enigmaticPhysicist May 27 '21 at 21:53

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 22 '16 at 01:23

Are you able to mount it via GUI?
I believe you are looking for the gvfs-mount command.
I'm assuming that you already authenticated successfully.
When running gvfs-mount --list, you should get something like this:

Drive(0): ST1000DM003-1ER162
  Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2)
  Volume(0): OS
    Type: GProxyVolume (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2)
Drive(1): HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GTA0N
  Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2)
Volume(0): [email protected]
  Type: GProxyVolume (GProxyVolumeMonitorGoa)

For mounting, try:

gvfs-mount google-drive://[email protected]/

And for unmounting:

gvfs-mount -u google-drive://[email protected]/

Both commands return no output on success. For me, it mounts at:

/run/user/1000/gvfs/google-drive:host=gmail.com,user=address/

Replace address with the correct address in the above commands.

I get "Invalid mount spec" when trying to mount using this command. And the manual is less than helpful about what is a valid mount spec… — l0b0, Nov 19 '16 at 11:06
It seems the address is case-sensitive. At least this triggered the "invalid mount spec" for me. — t.animal, Apr 24 '20 at 07:46

Mount google drive on command line using gvfs-google

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