How to connect to Google Drive using FUSE filesystem in Your Ubuntu Shell

By Heidy Ramirez-May 3, 2021

A quick guide showing how to connect to Google drive using google-drive-ocamlfuse a FUSE filesystem for Google Drive. This allows a directory in your system to be synced to your Google Drive. All changes sync automatically after 60 seconds.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa

sudo apt update && sudo apt install google-drive-ocamlfuse

google-drive-ocamlfuse

mkdir -v ~/myGoogleDrive

google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/myGoogleDrive

df -h

Done! You now have myGoogleDrive directory with all your documents and files synced.