<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Steve Romanow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slestak989@gmail.com">slestak989@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><div></div><div class="h5">Bob Kline wrote:<br>
> 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>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
>> 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>
>><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>
>> 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>
>><br>
>><br>
>>> For that matter, has anyone else tried mounting<br>
>>> a gmail file system? What should the contents<br>
>>> look like?<br>
>>><br>
>> No idea...<br>
>><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>
>> 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>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> :wq<br>
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</div>I use Tbird via imap for my gmail and I can view size data. With the<br>
large size of your data, first sync could be painful, but likely doable.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"> </div></div></blockquote><div>My original goal was to simply be<br>able to look at the gmail files with<br>the objective of eliminating very large<br>ones - typically those with a number of<br>
large images, or things like wmv files,<br>which can chew up storage space rapidly.<br>I'm actually comfortable with the notion<br>of Google storing and backing up the <br>material, but, unlike Yahoo mail, for <br>example, gmail does not offer anything<br>
like a concept of unlimited space - just big<br>for starters. So I just wanted to be able<br>to see the file sizes, which Yahoo mail <br>does display. I could just look for the <br>little clips signifying attachments, but<br>
was hoping for something faster. With<br>the file system mounted it could have <br>been much faster to find them with a<br>simple bash script.<br><br>I'm still curious about the error message<br>saying out of space, and in digging around<br>
find I'm not the first to encounter this. So<br>that's still an open issue, if not a very <br>urgent one. Maybe someone with less<br>than 21K messages can try to mount the<br>gmail file system and see if the same thing<br>
happens.<br><br>BTW, Comcast is now showing two more<br>tiers of service. "Ultra," which is nominally<br>22 Mbps down, and 5 mbps up. Then there<br>is the "Extreme" service with 50 Mbps down,<br>and 10 Mbps. I've checked for my area,<br>
zip code 49508, and it simply says "coming <br>soon." Anyone find it available in their area?<br><br>One can only imagine what these will cost.....<br><br> -- Bob<br><br></div></div>