pCloud Drive

A client app to mount a pCloud drive on Linux, for the rest of us who have been forgotten...

It uses FUSE to mount the pCloud drive. This is possible thanks to Bazil and his FUSE library for Go.

pCloud integration is leveraged from seborama/pcloud-sdk

I am developing on a Linux ARM Raspberry Pi4. I haven't (yet) tried Linux x86_64, it is too early at this stage of the development to worry about more than one platform. It should work the same though.

Status

The drive is theoretically fully functional, read and write. Attributes are also supported although, of course, pCloud applies its own cloud model for ownership and permissions.

What this currently lacks is sufficient hindsight and large scale use to flesh out bugs and performance issues. And also, I need to start writing tests........

This means that read operations should be considered BETA and write operations should be considered EXPERIMENTAL.

To reduce the risk of accidental damage, write operations are disabled by default. You need to specify the CLI argument --read-write to enable them (at your own risk of course).

Getting started

Download the binary for your platform from the releases, if available, or build it yourself.

The drive can be mounted via the CLI:

# Remember to first export the CLI's PCLOUD_* environemt variables!
# export PCLOUD_USERNAME=xxx
# export PCLOUD_PASSWORD=xxx
# export PCLOUD_OTP_CODE=xxx
# replace <mount-point> with a directory that already exists.
pcloud-drive --mount-point <mount-point>

# when you're done:
# replace <mount-point> with a directory that already exists.
umount <mount-point>

Should the client end abruptly, or time out, run umount <mount-point> to clean up the mount.

Tests

The tests rely on the presence of environment variables to supply your credentials (make sure you export the variables!):

• GO_PCLOUD_USERNAME
• GO_PCLOUD_PASSWORD
• GO_PCLOUD_TFA_CODE

Note

The device is automatically marked as trusted by pCloud, so TFA is only required the first time, until the trust expires. You can remove the trust manually in your account security settings.

cd fuse
go test -v ./

mkdir /tmp/pcloud_mnt

# in a separate terminal window:
ls /tmp/pcloud_mnt
# ...

# when you're done:
umount /tmp/pcloud_mnt