Plexdrive allows you to mount your Google Drive account as fuse filesystem.
The project is comparable to projects like rclone or node-gdrive-fuse, but optimized for media streaming e.g. with plex ;)
I tried using rclone a long time, but got API Quota errors ever day, or more times a day. So I decided to try node-gdrive-fuse. The problem here was, that it missed some of my media files, so I started implementing my own file system library.
- First you should install fuse on your system
- Then you should download the newest release from the GitHub release page.
- Create your own client id and client secret (see https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id).
- Run the application like this
./plexdrive /path/to/my/mount
Usage of ./plexdrive:
-chunk-size int
The size of each chunk that is downloaded (in byte) (default 5242880)
-clear-chunk-interval duration
The number of minutes to wait till clearing the chunk directory (default 1m0s)
-config string
The path to the configuration directory (default "/home/ip-sh0k/.plexdrive")
-fuse-options string
Fuse mount options (e.g. -fuse-options allow_other,...)
-gid int
Set the mounts GID (-1 = default permissions) (default -1)
-log-level int
Set the log level (0 = error, 1 = warn, 2 = info, 3 = debug, 4 = trace)
-refresh-interval duration
The number of minutes to wait till checking for changes (default 5m0s)
-temp string
Path to a temporary directory to store temporary data (default "/tmp")
-version
Displays version information
Path to a temporary directory to store temporary data (default "/tmp/ip-sh0k")
-uid int
Set the mounts UID (-1 = default permissions) (default -1)
- allow_other
- allow_root
- allow_dev
- allow_non_empty_mount
- allow_suid
- max_readahead=1234
- default_permissions
- excl_create
- fs_name=myname
- local_volume
- writeback_cache
- volume_name=myname
Personally I start the program with systemd. You can use this configuration
[Unit]
Description=Plexdrive
AssertPathIsDirectory=/mnt/drive
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/plexdrive -log-level 2 /mnt/drive
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u /mnt/drive
Restart=on-abort
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target