Access Google Drive locally on Chromebook via Crouton

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I am using a Samsung Chromebook with the Crouton chroot environment (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton). This has revolutionized my view of how practical a Chromebook can be for developer-type work. I love it.

But now I am wanting to synchronize files between my various PCs and laptops. Using git is certainly an option, but it requires one to manually check in my work. What if I forget? I have been spoiled lately using either Dropbox or Google Drive to automagically keep my files all nicely synched up. The problem now with Crouton on my Chromebook is that I do see any obvious way to have project folder synced using Google Drive. I assume Drive would be the easier route since its a Google product. But if Dropbox can be made to work, that would be awesome too.

Has anyone looked into this and found a workable solution?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 11 '13 at 04:47

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Although I haven't attempted to get it working yet, this project allows you to mount Google Drive to your Linux file system: https://github.com/dsoprea/GDriveFS

answered Mar 11 '13 at 04:47

rickhuizinga

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Thanks man. I think GDriveFS is a great idea! I can't wait to try it out. – Who8MyLunch Mar 11 '13 at 12:00

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 12 '19 at 10:10

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You can access the locally synced Drive folder (as used by the rest of ChromeOS) from within a chroot at this directory:

/var/host/media/fuse/drivefs-[unique ID]/root/

Note that the unique ID is different on each machine (or possibly each google account?) - you will need to find this yourself.

This can also be accessed from the ChromeOS shell here:

/media/fuse/drivefs-[unique ID]/root/

answered Jun 12 '19 at 10:10

SomeoneSomewhereSupportsMonica

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Although this comment has not received any vote, this actually does work on a chromebook. The advantage is that the `[unique ID]` is already part of the folder name. As a chromebook user, you don't have to work hard to find it. Just tab-complete it at `/var/host/media/fuse/drivefs-**TAB**` – dearN Mar 08 '20 at 13:20

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 19 '13 at 04:36

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Dropbox works fine for me within a crouton chroot.

% sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

see http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/04/install-dropbox-in-ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin/ for a full description.

answered Apr 19 '13 at 04:36

rocketman

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Access Google Drive locally on Chromebook via Crouton

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