Google Drive on nfs doesn't work

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I'm using rclone on a raspberry 4 and I've successfully mounted a Google Drive partition on /mnt/GDrive (I can see files on raspberry), my issues start when I try to access that folder using nfs on my pc, I see it empty on pc.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

Here is my rclone version:
rclone v1.61.1

  • os/version: debian 11.6 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 6.1.19-v8+ (aarch64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: arm64
  • go/version: go1.19.4
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

I'm using Google Drive storage system.

Raspberry configuration:
I've mounted it on my raspberry using systemd (I'm new to these things not even sure if I chose best settings for mount the drive)

[Unit]
Description=Mount GDrive1Crypt
AssertPathIsDirectory=/mnt/GDrive
After=networking.service

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=rclone mount --config=/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf encrypted_gdrive: /mnt/GDrive --allow-other --cache-db-purge --fast-list --poll-interval 20m
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u /mnt/GDrive
Restart=always
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

export file:

/mnt *(rw,async,insecure,no_root_squash,fsid=0,crossmnt,no_subtree_check)

running ls -l on /mnt folders:

drwxr-xr-x   1 root   root      0 Mar 21 11:29 GDrive
drwxrwsrwx+ 21 dietpi dietpi 4096 Mar 15 13:31 Toshiba

tried to chown / chmod but as soon as it mounts the folder owner gets changed to root, not sure if that's the issue

my rclone config file:

[GDrive]
type = drive
client_id = x
client_secret = x
scope = drive
token = {"access_token":"x","expiry":"x"}
team_drive = x
root_folder_id = 

[encrypted_gdrive]
type = crypt
remote = GDrive:backup
password = x
password2 = x

Pc configuration:
fstab looks like this:

# This is a disk (not related to rclone) attached to the raspberry and it works correctly
192.168.50.99:/Toshiba	/mnt/Toshiba nfs	defaults 0 0

# This is the rclone fstab entry but it's not working
192.168.50.99:/GDrive	/mnt/GDrive nfs		defaults 0 0
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hello and welcome to the forum,
not sure about the nfs issue

--cache-db-purge --fast-list - these flags do nothing, can remove them.

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as a test, did you try to change the mount command to run as non-root user.

what happens if you run the mount command from the terminal, not using systemd.

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Thank you for the tips :smiley: Anyway, I just tried to run the rclone mount command without sudo permission but looks like before.

Running directly the mount command doesn't output anything but it mounts correctly in /mnt/GDrive folder (still root as owner of the folder). On pc I still can't see files inside the nfs mounted folder

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add -vv

nfs has been discussed a number of times in the forum, have you searched?
https://forum.rclone.org/t/unable-to-view-gdrive-rclone-contents-on-nfs-server/18111

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Here is the output, seems there are no errrors:

2023/03/21 13:20:59 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.61.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "mount" "--config=/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" "encrypted_gdrive:" "/mnt/GDrive" "--allow-other" "--poll-interval" "20m" "-vv"]
2023/03/21 13:20:59 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "encrypted_gdrive:"
2023/03/21 13:20:59 DEBUG : Using config file from "/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2023/03/21 13:20:59 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "GDrive:backup"
2023/03/21 13:21:00 DEBUG : Encrypted drive 'encrypted_gdrive:': Mounting on "/mnt/GDrive"
2023/03/21 13:21:00 DEBUG : : Root: 
2023/03/21 13:21:00 DEBUG : : >Root: node=/, err=<nil>
2023/03/21 13:21:06 DEBUG : /: Attr: 
2023/03/21 13:21:06 DEBUG : /: >Attr: attr=valid=1s ino=0 size=0 mode=drwxr-xr-x, err=<nil>

yes, but I'm new to linux world and I'm not sure if I do things correctly, I tried other solutions like to specify nfsv4 with command sudo mount -t nfs -o nfsvers=4 192.168.50.99:GDrive /mnt/GDrive but didn't change anything

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i re-edited that last post. did you see

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Yes, I'll try to check it out. ty!

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