I'm an avid user of google tools, be it mail or IM or Gearth etc and I used Gmail Drive in the days when I used to work on windows and I must accept that it worked like a charm. When I moved to linux I tried doing the same thing. Basically I thought of automounting the GmailFS to some dir @ say /home/harry/gmail on startup. So I thought of using it as a local drive after mounting obviously with a descent internet connection. Even after spending some time googling around I dint get any good feedback from people using gmailfs. I request those who've used it in linux without facing too much probs to help me setting this up at my local box. Anyone interested in this is also welcome for knowledge sharing.
In some of the forums I came accross something called dropbox that provides online storage, though there are plethora of free online storage providers. Has anyone tried using this, do let me know your views.
Some of the links I went thru are here,
http://richard.jones.name/google-hac...ilesystem.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ailfs+in+linux
also got these @LQ,
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...x-file-447218/
I went thru this a bit confused, can someone give the proper steps for getting gmailfs work flawlessly in linux.

Just googling for "gmail drive fro linux" will throw hell of results.

Thank you very much.

I got this working easily with Ubuntu 8.04. I used the package manager to install gmailfs and a couple of other packages that were needed for it.

Then created a directory in my home directory to be used for the gmailfs when mounted.

Then ran the command:
mount.gmailfs none /home/xxx/gmailfs -o username=yyyzzz,fsname=something -p

Using my gmail username for the "username" parameter above.

This prompts for the gmail password, and then it is done - a gmail file system mounted.

Easy.