[GRLUG] gmailfs question

[Bob Kline]

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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