How to Mount a Google Drive Locally with Rclone 

I second this!

I totally remember using Daemon Tools too! (Specifically to play Starcraft...) But no, this is just a coincidence. “Daemon” is a generic term for server processes, and the command just reloads systemd’s configuration files. Now I wanna play Starcraft! :D

Thanks! :D

Thank you for your question! The files will be synced to the mount or the system, but they are merely cached and when needed, it will re-download the file to the location on the system. We hope this is helpful. Thank you for learning with us!

@@cbtnuggets does it have something like "auto delete cache every ....." system or do I have to do it manually? If so how can I?

@@cmaxz817There might be a mix between time and memory allocated. The system will hold the files within the system for the give duration, or until the cache has been depleted, then it will purge the oldest content. The cache can be increased within the config files. Typically, when you have the sync setup it will pull down the relevant information to the system for access, but the file itself may still be stored in the cloud as needed.

Exactly what I wanted to know.

Untested suggestion: create a cronjob with @reboot to run the rclone line that mounts what you need. At the Pi's reboot, it should run that rclone command and mount your drive like you did so from the command line yourself.

i saw it was answered but i just thought id leave this here incase its needed by someone. for anyone curious about automatically running it on windows use a program called NSSM to create a windows service. it'll start when the pc boots up

run on the background

yes, you can also copy and paste to and from the mount and it'll paste to the drive, same with renaming a file, it renames the file on the google drive.

I think I’d write a small script that, while running, is a loop of “copy the file, sleep 60 secs, copy the file, etc.”

Be careful with network-mode also its not really needed, just mount the drive on any system you want to have access. i currently have 3 pcs all connected to the same Gdrive, but all with separate mounts. its much less buggy than network-mode. also cache is outdated, but i still use it currently. if you have questions id be happy to answer them

well copy the config files over then mount

Hi Kenneth, Google has since changed its policies, so some of these benefits with Rclone and G Suite (now Google Workspace) are not as enticing as described. Please refer to Google's pricing and terms for more information. Thank you for learning with us!

@@cbtnuggets ive had a google business account for years now and currently have well over 100tb google drive hosted with Rclone. im very familiar with that. You just deflected away from my question. My question was had you ran into any api bans not using a cache rather than a straight mount. I get the opinion you don't really know what I'm even talking about. or what the benefits of a cache are. Clearly, you haven't hit any API bans because you don't seem to know what they are. Which is fine. But just say that. Or have me explain it.

@@kl3mta3 Because @CBT Nuggets is a LIAR!

I don't run my Plex instance via Docker, but I'm sure there must be a way to locally mount the volume from within the container and use that as your Plex media source?

Either in your docker compose file for the bit: volumes: - /path/to/library:/config - /path/to/tvseries:/tv - /path/to/movies:/movies You'd just do: /gdrive/tv:tv /gdrive/movies:/movies etc. Or if using cli to start the instance, it would be -v /gdrive/tv:tv -v /gdrive/movies:movies etc.

I run an Rclone mount on one PC, thats whole job is to run programs to download and add files to the drive. i have a separate server that mounts the same drive and hosts it through plex. depending on how its set up, the mount will only see the files uploaded to the drive via Rclone. all the files added by hand on google.com are more or less not there to the mount.

rclone sync -i SOURCE remote:DESTINATION More info here: rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/

There's also a separate tool called Rsync that you might want to check out.

I am a user from mainland China, I don't know if my explanation is clear, because my English is not very good...tank for your answers very much ！！

I did it with systemd. Create for example a gdrive.service in /etc/systemd/system This .service file includes the following: [Unit] Description=googledrivemount AssertPathIsDirectory=/home/[User]/GoogleDrive/ After=network-online.target [Service] Type=simple User=[User] Group=[User] ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone --vfs-cache-mode writes mount googledrive: /home/[User]/GoogleDrive/ --config /home/[User]/.config/rclone/rclone.conf ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u /home/[User]/GoogleDrive/ Restart=always RestartSec=10 [Install] WantedBy=default.target Replace the [User] with your username Run in Terminal: systemctl enable gdrive.service

@@Peter-tq5ocTotally wrong!

@@franciscooteiza How is your response helpful? Why is it wrong and what do you think is the correct way?

you're maxing out the API calls to the google server

Same here.

I just wrote the mount command in at the end of my .bashrc and that's working for me.

NO!

Which OS did you try on? I tried on macOS 11.1 and mount does not seem to work here either.

@@IamShGulati I used WSL on Windows. Everything worked except mount. Can't stand buggy software.

@@GiorgiAptsiauriX mate try this method, works like charm in windows 10 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eSMYsZHg7EI.html&ab_channel=DropCorp

unlimited storage is now gone in Google drive

how many now?

Ps it’s no longer $12 a month it’s $50 now because of use cases like this… you can do it with backblaze for $6 a month but I doubt that’ll last long either.