How to have Google Drive as a disk drive in Ubuntu

How to have Google Drive as a disk drive in Ubuntu

There are many customers on Goolge Drive, Google's virtual hard drive. So much so that despite having an official application for Ubuntu, the unofficial options are having the same success as the official one. But what I propose today is different. Today I propose to put our Google Drive as a disk drive, in such a way that Ubuntu represents it as a normal hard disk, but in reality it will be a virtual hard disk, a practical solution for security or portability issues.

To convert our Google Drive into a disk drive we will use the Google-drive-ocamlfuse program. This program will not only allow us to transform our Google Drive into a disk drive but also to fully interact with Google Drive from our File Manager. For everything to work I am going to use the binary installation method, although there is another method, a little more confusing but just as valid.

1st Step. We install Google-Drive-Ocamfuse

First we download the binaries from this link, we unzip them in a folder on our home and open a terminal with which we will go to the folder where the program is unzipped. Now, once located we write:

sudo install ~ / google-drive-ocamlfuse * / google-drive-ocamlfuse / usr / local / bin /

If it gives you an error, first install the following dependencies and then use the previous line again.

sudo apt-get install libcurl3-gnutls libfuse2 libsqlite3-0

2nd Step. Configure the program to function as a Disk Drive

Now, from the terminal, we execute Google-drive-ocamlfuse so that it asks for access rights to Google,

google-drive-ocamlfuse

Now we create a folder in the home where our files will be hosted

mkdir ~ / gdrive

(I have called it gdrive, but you can call it whatever you want)

Now we mount the program in the created folder and so we have the disk drive ready

google-drive-ocamlfuse ~ / gdrive

So we have what we want, but momentarily, since when it is started again, such disk unit will disappear, so it is necessary that we insert the following line in the Applications Start menu that we will find in the Ubuntu configurator.

google-drive-ocamlfuse / path / to / gdrive

Now yes, when we start our Ubuntu system we will have a disk drive that will be our Google Drive virtual hard disk. If we like the program but we want to modify some configuration such as the refresh rate or the space to use, we only have to go to /.gdfuse/default/config where we will find the configuration options of our new disk unit, but be careful now that you can break the program or send the content of our Google Drive to hell.

More information - Google Drive and its clients for UbuntuHow to easily access your Google Drive contents from Ubuntu 13.04

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    How are you, friend, and if I have shared disk drives and I want those drives to be used as a disk drive, how should I do it? It should be noted that I am the administrator of that shared drive.