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mgilbert
Asked: 2018-12-02 11:18:41 +0800 CST

Google Drive Nautilus Mount Point

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As per this article, I am able to get nautilus integration with google drive and can manually copy files into google drive via the GUI, however I would like to be able to write a small shell script to do backups periodically via cron. I cannot seem to find where this is actually mounted?

Via nautilus I see it at google-drive://[email protected]/ however am a bit confused how this is actually connected/mounted so nautilus can see it and where I can cp files to?

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  1. Nautilus integration with google drive uses GVfs (abbreviation for GNOME Virtual file system). You can find GVfs mountpoints in:

    /run/user/XXXX/gvfs

    where XXXX is the UID of your user.

    In my computer, google drive mountpoint is on /run/user/1000/gvfs/....

    You can find the list of GVfs mounted filesystems running the following command:

    gvfs-mount --list -i

    If you want copy Google Drive files using terminal, you must use the gvfs-copy command instead cp.

    As despicted here, there are specific gvfs-... type commands to process files in remote locations.

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