mount.gmailfs -- A program to mount your Gmail storage space as a regular filesystem
SYNOPSIS
mount.gmailfs [none mountpoint] [-o options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the mount.gmailfs command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
mount.gmailfs mounts a Gmail storage space. It is usually invoked
by the mount(8) command when using the "-t gmailfs" option.
The kernel must support the FUSE filesystem (see README for more info about that).
mount.gmailfs logs to /var/log/gmailfs.
Options to mount.gmailfs are specified as a comma-separated list of
key=value pairs.
Default option values are listed in /etc/gmailfs/gmailfs.conf.
OPTIONS
"-o"
Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separated
string of options.
"username=value"
The Gmail account username
"password=value"
The Gmail account password
"fsname=value"
The Gmail account filesystem name. It is important to choose a
hard-to-guess name here - because if others can guess the fsname, they
can corrupt your Gmail filesystem by injecting spurious messages into
your Inbox.
"blocksize=value"
This option can be safely omitted.
""
The default blocksize is
5MB. Files smaller than the minimum blocksize will only use the amount
of space required to store the file, NOT the full blocksize. Note that
any files created during a previous mount with a different blocksize
will retain their original blocksize until deleted. For most
applications you will make best use of your bandwidth by keeping the
blocksize as large as possible.
EXAMPLES
mount -t gmailfs none /path/of/mount/point -o username=gmailuser,password=gmailpass,fsname=zOlRRa
