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== Implementation == (this article is heavily excerpted from https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-mount-google-drive-locally-as-virtual-file-system-in-linux/) [https://rclone.org Rclone] is a tool to sync files and directories to and from local and remote cloud storage providers. It can also serve local or remote files over HTTP/WebDav/FTP/SFTP/dlna. Rclone is a free and open source application written using GO programming language. On Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Deb-based systems: $ sudo apt install rclone On Fedora: $ sudo dnf install rclone Once installed, run the following command to give permission to Rclone to access your Google drive: $ rclone config The configuration is mostly self-explanatory, but reference the above mentioned web page if there are any questions. The configuration is stored in this directory (for future reference): ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
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