Drive Mount

A personal tool that mounts one Google Drive account as a folder on one Linux desktop.

Drive Mount is a private, single-user setup built on rclone. It makes the owner's own Google Drive appear as an ordinary directory on their own computer, so files can be opened and saved by normal applications instead of through a web browser.

It is not a product, not a service, and has no users other than its author. It exists because Google Drive has no official Linux client.

What it does

• Signs in to a single Google account with that account holder's permission.
• Presents the files in that account's Drive as a folder on their computer.
• Keeps a local cache so files open at local speed rather than being re-downloaded on every read.
• Uploads changes back to the same Drive account.

Who can use it

Only its author. There is no sign-up, no hosted component and no shared installation. Anyone else running the underlying open-source software does so under their own Google credentials, not these.