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Access Google Drive locally on Chromebook via Crouton


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?


Solution

  • 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