GCSF is a virtual filesystem that allows users to mount their Google Drive account locally and interact with it as a regular disk partition. You can find out more in this paper.
GCSF requires the stable branch of the Rust programming language, which can be installed following the instructions on rustup.rs. If you already have Rust installed, make sure that it is updated to the latest version (≥1.26):
$ rustup update stable
On Mac OSX, GCSF requires osxfuse and pkg-config:
$ brew update; brew install pkg-config; brew tap homebrew/cask; brew cask install osxfuse
On Ubuntu, GCSF requires libfuse-dev and pkg-config:
sudo apt-get install -y libfuse-dev pkg-config
Make sure you have pkg-config
and the fuse
library installed. These are usually found in the package repositories of major distributions.
Unfortunately, Windows is not supported at the time being. See issue #19.
After all requirements are met, GCSF can be installed using cargo
:
$ cargo install gcsf
This will generate the gcsf
binary in $HOME/.cargo/bin
. Make sure that this directory is in your PATH
variable: export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin
Alternatively, you can download a release binary for your platform.
GCSF will attempt to create a configuration file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gcsf/gcsf.toml
, which is usually defined as $HOME/.config/gcsf/gcsf.toml
. Credentials are stored in the same directory.
The first step is to log in to Drive and authorize the application. A name must be provided for the session:
$ gcsf login some_session_name
Please direct your browser to https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/[...] and follow the instructions displayed there.
Successfully logged in. Saved credentials to "$HOME/.config/gcsf/some_session_name"
You can also list all existing sessions:
$ gcsf list
Sessions:
- personal
- some_session_name
- work
And then mount one (or more) of them:
$ gcsf mount /mnt/gcsf -s some_session_name
INFO gcsf > Creating and populating file system...
INFO gcsf > File sytem created.
INFO gcsf > Mounting to /mnt/gcsf
INFO gcsf > Mounted to /mnt/gcsf
You can now find the contents of your Drive account in /mnt/gcsf
:
Using Ranger:
Or Thunar:
Contributions are welcome. You can also help by reporting or fixing issues.