Use rclone to Mount Proton Drive in Fedora Linux

This blog post describes one to mount an entire Proton Drive onto a Fedora Linux file system. A better alternative might be to create a directory on the Proton Drive, and to share only that directory.

First, create a directory to represent the Proton Drive.

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/proton_drive
sudo chgrp <grp> /mnt/proton_drive
sudo <grp>+w /mnt/proton_drive

Change group to the group of a user that will mount the Proton drive. I used my own primary group, which is named after the user.

Next, install a version of rclone that supports Proton.

• https://rclone.org/downloads/ (Intel/AMD – 64 Bit .rpm)

Assuming that you downloaded to ~/Downloads, to install rclone, in a shell:

cd ~/Downloads
sudo dnf install rclone-v1.69.1-linux-amd64.rpm

Now configure rclone:

rclone config

Enter approximately the following values, where you will use the remote name value “proton” later.

n 	 # new
proton   # remote name
XX       # remote type: Proton Drive         # (from the list provided) 

username # proton username
y        # enter password
password # proton password
password # proton password
Enter    # skip 2FA finish
y        # save, accept defaults, quit

You can test as follows:

rclone mount remote: /mnt/proton_drive --vfs-cache-mode full

Use the command line or a file manager to browse /mnt/proton_drive. Performance can vary.

To run more persistently:

nohup rclone mount remote: /mnt/proton_drive --vfs-cache-mode full &