I have just over 21,000 messages,<br>which is about 3.3GB out of an<br>allocated 7.3GB. <br><br>Leading me to ask just what mounting<br>does. If I want to do a backup I presume<br>I have to actually make a copy to a local<br>
directory. i.e., I've mounted a file system<br>on Google's machine. <br><br>Re POP, I'm game, but will have to ask<br>you for a small word salad about how to <br>do it....<br><br>Re FUSE, the man page for mount.gmailfs<br>
does mention that the kernel must support<br>the FUSE file system.<br><br>But nothing more....<br><br> -- Bob<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Bob Kline<<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I mounted my <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a> contents using, as root:<br>
><br>
> mount -t gmailfs none /mount-point -o<br>
> usrname=me,password=my_password,fsname=secret_word<br>
><br>
> It mounted fine, apparently. i.e., no errors.<br>
> And the size matches what I see on <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a><br>
> when I log in.<br>
><br>
> But when I attempt to list the contents, using<br>
><br>
> ls /mount-point<br>
><br>
> I get<br>
><br>
> ls: cannot open directory. .: No space left on device<br>
><br>
> Huh? My hard drive has plenty of space<br>
> left. And so does my gmail account.<br>
><br>
> Can anyone tell me what this might mean?<br>
<br>
</div>How many emails are in your account? It's possible it bumped up<br>
against some resource limit internal to the userspace component of the<br>
FUSE filesystem. I'd have to look at the source code.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> For that matter, has anyone else tried mounting<br>
> a gmail file system? What should the contents<br>
> look like?<br>
<br>
</div>No idea...<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Why am I doing this? To look for large messages<br>
> to delete. Unlike Yahoo email, gmail does no tell<br>
> you message sizes.<br>
<br>
</div>I keep a home backup of my GMail account via POP. If you were to do<br>
something like that, you could see the email sizes that way as well.<br>
(I'm not saying using FUSE is a bad idea, mind you, just offering an<br>
alternate approach.)<br>
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