Saturday, July 5, 2025

Using rclone to integrate Google Drive in Arch

 sudo pacman -S rclone

rclone config  # will need to set up secret key and client ID follow instructions

 

 mkdir ~/GoogleDrive

 

rclone mount gdrive: ~/GoogleDrive --vfs-cache-mode writes --daemon 

# can also use following to run in background (nohup):

nohup rclone mount gdrive: ~/GoogleDrive --vfs-cache-mode writes --allow-non-empty --dir-cache-time 1000h --poll-interval 15s 

systemctl --user edit --force --full rclone-mount.service

 

add:

[Unit]
Description=RClone Mount Google Drive
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount gdrive: %h/GoogleDrive --vfs-cache-mode writes --vfs-cache-max-age 1h
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u %h/GoogleDrive
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

 

 Enable: systemctl --user enable --now rclone-mount.service

 

 

 

 

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