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After signing in to Google Chrome on Debian, I noticed that I had very little storage space. I found out that this was because my /var/host/media/fuse/ folder contained a folder named "drivefs-" followed by a long alphanumeric. (I am not showing the full folder name here in case it turns out to be an auth token for my account.) In this folder was a root folder containing the entire contents of my Google Drive, taking up several Gigabytes. I want to remove all of these files from my computer to free up space.

I tried deleting the entire drivefs file, but this also deleted all of my online files too, and I had to restore them. Now that I have restored them, the folder is full of my files again. I tried pausing syncing on Chrome and unchecking the box for syncing in Drive, but it doesn't let me remove the files without deleting everything. Unchecking the box in Drive's settings doesn't remove any of the files.

Also, when I try to delete the drivefs file, it gives me an error because I can't modify the two folders "Computers" or "files-by-id". Even root only has read privileges to those folders.

I never installed any application for syncing my Drive account or granted any permissions for it, and when enabling sync, I chose to only sync passwords. To double check that I had no sync client installed, I ran dpkg --get-selections and searched through it for names of Drive sync clients for linux listed online, but couldn't find any.

Based on some research I've done, I think it's a mounted filesystem using FUSE, but I still have no idea how to remove it.

Here is the result of a tree command I ran:

/var/host/

├── chrome

│   ├── arc_bridge.sock

│   ├── wayland-0

│   └── wayland-0.lock

├── cras

├── cras-version

├── dbus

│   └── system_bus_socket

├── lsb-release

├── media

│   ├── archive

│   ├── fuse

│   │   └── drivefs-(alphanumeric)

│   │       ├── Computers

│   │       ├── root

│   │       │   ├── (all of my drive files)

|   │       └── team_drives

│   └── removable

In case it makes a difference, I am using Debian dual-booted on my chromebook with crouton.

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  How have you determined this folder is taking up the room on your system's storage? If the fuse/drivefs-... is a fuse mountpoint, then the files under it aren't necessarily taking up room on your computer
  
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  @Torin I used ncdu, how can I tell if it is using space?
  
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After signing in to Google Chrome on Debian, I noticed that I had very little storage space. I found out that this was because my /var/host/media/fuse/ folder contained a folder named "drivefs-" followed by a long alphanumeric. (I am not showing the full folder name here in case it turns out to be an auth token for my account.) In this folder was a root folder containing the entire contents of my Google Drive, taking up several Gigabytes. I want to remove all of these files from my computer to free up space.

I tried deleting the entire drivefs file, but this also deleted all of my online files too, and I had to restore them. Now that I have restored them, the folder is full of my files again. I tried pausing syncing on Chrome and unchecking the box for syncing in Drive, but it doesn't let me remove the files without deleting everything. Unchecking the box in Drive's settings doesn't remove any of the files.

Also, when I try to delete the drivefs file, it gives me an error because I can't modify the two folders "Computers" or "files-by-id". Even root only has read privileges to those folders.

I never installed any application for syncing my Drive account or granted any permissions for it, and when enabling sync, I chose to only sync passwords. To double check that I had no sync client installed, I ran dpkg --get-selections and searched through it for names of Drive sync clients for linux listed online, but couldn't find any.

Based on some research I've done, I think it's a mounted filesystem using FUSE, but I still have no idea how to remove it.

Here is the result of a tree command I ran:

/var/host/

├── chrome

│   ├── arc_bridge.sock

│   ├── wayland-0

│   └── wayland-0.lock

├── cras

├── cras-version

├── dbus

│   └── system_bus_socket

├── lsb-release

├── media

│   ├── archive

│   ├── fuse

│   │   └── drivefs-(alphanumeric)

│   │       ├── Computers

│   │       ├── root

│   │       │   ├── (all of my drive files)

|   │       └── team_drives

│   └── removable

In case it makes a difference, I am using Debian dual-booted on my chromebook with crouton.

debian synchronization fuse google-drive

share

asked 4 hours ago

John LockeJohn Locke

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  How have you determined this folder is taking up the room on your system's storage? If the fuse/drivefs-... is a fuse mountpoint, then the files under it aren't necessarily taking up room on your computer
  
  – Torin
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Torin I used ncdu, how can I tell if it is using space?
  
  – John Locke
  2 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

After signing in to Google Chrome on Debian, I noticed that I had very little storage space. I found out that this was because my /var/host/media/fuse/ folder contained a folder named "drivefs-" followed by a long alphanumeric. (I am not showing the full folder name here in case it turns out to be an auth token for my account.) In this folder was a root folder containing the entire contents of my Google Drive, taking up several Gigabytes. I want to remove all of these files from my computer to free up space.

I tried deleting the entire drivefs file, but this also deleted all of my online files too, and I had to restore them. Now that I have restored them, the folder is full of my files again. I tried pausing syncing on Chrome and unchecking the box for syncing in Drive, but it doesn't let me remove the files without deleting everything. Unchecking the box in Drive's settings doesn't remove any of the files.

Also, when I try to delete the drivefs file, it gives me an error because I can't modify the two folders "Computers" or "files-by-id". Even root only has read privileges to those folders.

I never installed any application for syncing my Drive account or granted any permissions for it, and when enabling sync, I chose to only sync passwords. To double check that I had no sync client installed, I ran dpkg --get-selections and searched through it for names of Drive sync clients for linux listed online, but couldn't find any.

Based on some research I've done, I think it's a mounted filesystem using FUSE, but I still have no idea how to remove it.

Here is the result of a tree command I ran:

/var/host/

├── chrome

│   ├── arc_bridge.sock

│   ├── wayland-0

│   └── wayland-0.lock

├── cras

├── cras-version

├── dbus

│   └── system_bus_socket

├── lsb-release

├── media

│   ├── archive

│   ├── fuse

│   │   └── drivefs-(alphanumeric)

│   │       ├── Computers

│   │       ├── root

│   │       │   ├── (all of my drive files)

|   │       └── team_drives

│   └── removable

In case it makes a difference, I am using Debian dual-booted on my chromebook with crouton.

debian synchronization fuse google-drive

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/var/host/

├── chrome

│   ├── arc_bridge.sock

│   ├── wayland-0

│   └── wayland-0.lock

├── cras

├── cras-version

├── dbus

│   └── system_bus_socket

├── lsb-release

├── media

│   ├── archive

│   ├── fuse

│   │   └── drivefs-(alphanumeric)

│   │       ├── Computers

│   │       ├── root

│   │       │   ├── (all of my drive files)

|   │       └── team_drives

│   └── removable

share

asked 4 hours ago

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