This how to helps you to learn Mount Google Drive Permanently On Linux. By mounting it permanently, you will have it always available.
Mount Google Drive Permanently On Linux
Index Of How To Mount Google Drive Permanently On Linux
Background of Mount Google Drive Permanently On Linux
In this how to i am leveraging on the following components:
- Raspberry Pi 4
- Debian Linux Operating System
- Google Drive (Google Cloud Service Account)
- Rclone
- Google Account available, incl. necessary configuration to share google drive
How To Mount Google Drive Permanently On Linux
To mount Google drive permanently, you need to have a Google Drive Client ID and a properly working configuration. If you have this, then please follow the below. If you haven’t, then you maybe like to check one of these How To’s which help you to get it. Just go thru the first chapters and comeback here.
If you have a working Google drive configuration, then you can make the Google drive connected permanently to you Linux. To do so, follow the below step by step guide. One point, in this How To the google drive to be mounted is called “GoogleDrive”. In case you have a different name, you should replace “GoogleDrive” by whatever is the name of your configuration.
First of all, we create a configuration file for the service:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/rclone@GoogleDrive.service
Into this file you will be copying the following:
# service to mount Google Drive by rclone # Place the file into /etc/systemd/system/ following how to guidance on https://www.myhowto.blog # Once the file was placed, reload the systemctl deamon by typing systemctl --user daemon-reload # To start the service type: systemctl --user start rclone@GoogleDrive # To stop the service type:: systemctl --user stop rclone@GoogleDrive # To restart the service type: systemctl --user restart rclone@GoogleDrive # To check the service status type: systemctl --user status rclone@GoogleDrive [Unit] Description=rclone: Remote FUSE filesystem for cloud storage config %i Documentation=man:rclone(1) [Service] Type=notify ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p %h/mnt/%i ExecStart= \ /usr/bin/rclone mount \ --fast-list \ --vfs-cache-mode writes \ --vfs-cache-max-size 100M \ %i: %h/mnt/%i [Install] WantedBy=default.target
Save and exit. To enable the service we fire the below 3 commands on the command line:
openhabian@OpenHAB:~ $ sudo systemctl enable rclone@GoogleDrive openhabian@OpenHAB:~ $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload openhabian@OpenHAB:~ $ sudo systemctl start rclone@GoogleDrive
Once done, lets test whether the drive is permanently mapped to the folder in /root/mnt/GoogleDrive:
sudo ls -la /root/mnt/GoogleDrive
This command should provide you with the list of files. If you followed this How To, than you most likely will find in a minimum one file that is called “file.file”.
That’s actually it. You maybe like to restart to doublecheck.
Additional Information
More information about rclone can be found on the official rclone page. There is also a how to that I have written earlier, though this might not work anymore properly since Google changed some items on OAuth. You maybe like to check out this as well. Its more related to Raspberry and less directly to OpenHAB.
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