[GRLUG] gmailfs question

[Steve Romanow]

Bob Kline wrote:
> I have just over 21,000 messages,
> which is about 3.3GB out of an
> allocated 7.3GB.
>
> Leading me to ask just what mounting
> does.  If I want to do a backup I presume
> I have to actually make a copy to a local
> directory.  i.e., I've mounted a file system
> on Google's machine.
>
> Re POP,  I'm game,  but will have to ask
> you for a small word salad about how to
> do it....
>
> Re FUSE,  the man page for mount.gmailfs
> does mention that the kernel must support
> the FUSE file system.
>
> But nothing more....
>
>     -- Bob
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Bob Kline<bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I mounted my gmail.com contents using, as root:
>>>
>>> mount -t gmailfs none /mount-point  -o
>>> usrname=me,password=my_password,fsname=secret_word
>>>
>>> It mounted fine, apparently.  i.e., no errors.
>>> And the size matches what I see on gmail.com
>>> when I log in.
>>>
>>> But when I attempt to list the contents, using
>>>
>>> ls  /mount-point
>>>
>>> I get
>>>
>>> ls: cannot open directory.  .: No space left on device
>>>
>>> Huh?  My hard drive has plenty of space
>>> left.  And so does my gmail account.
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me what this might mean?
>>>       
>> How many emails are in your account?  It's possible it bumped up
>> against some resource limit internal to the userspace component of the
>> FUSE filesystem.  I'd have to look at the source code.
>>
>>     
>>> For that matter, has anyone else tried mounting
>>> a gmail file system?  What should the contents
>>> look like?
>>>       
>> No idea...
>>
>>     
>>> Why am I doing this?  To look for large messages
>>> to delete.  Unlike Yahoo email,  gmail does no tell
>>> you message sizes.
>>>       
>> I keep a home backup of my GMail account via POP.  If you were to do
>> something like that, you could see the email sizes that way as well.
>> (I'm not saying using FUSE is a bad idea, mind you, just offering an
>> alternate approach.)
>>
>> --
>> :wq
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I use Tbird via imap for my gmail and I can view size data.  With the 
large size of your data, first sync could be painful, but likely doable.