Mount google drive on command line using gvfs-google

Question

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?

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

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

GVFS Bug 796064 - impossible to mount

Comments

[Mark K Cowan]

Did you solve this? I'm on XFCE.

[Florian]

Unfortunately, no.

[l0b0]

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…

[reeco]

According to this issue gnome-control-center should not run outside GNOME.

[enigmaticPhysicist]

Also useful for MTP devices.