How to mount Google drive locally with rclone

Par Luciol

février 9, 2025

Use case : You have a linux distribution - say debian - with a non gnome desktop - say Mate. Unfortunally, Gnome accounts won’t work (you don’t know why, but de google drive will not mount what’s so ever…). The best solution is not Ocalm fuse, but rclone. Simple and powerful to mount remote drives.
Solution : install rclone and mount the bloody drive.
How to (very short) :
- Install rclone
```
sudo apt install rclone
```
- Make the mount point directory.
  
  For exemple :
```
mkdir ~/GoogleDrive
```
- Configure rclone : you will need the mount point path, and you will authentify to your google account by a browser launched by the rclone config script.
  
  Launch configuration :
```
rclone config
```
  Basically, everything is described here https://rclone.org/drive/
  
  Later, I may copy the config steps in this post…
- Mount your Google drive :
```
rclone mount GoogleDrive: ~/GoogleDrive &
```
- You can now access to your remote files at the mount point. Enjoy.