How to mount GCP Bucket in Google Colab

Question

I want to access the files in my GCP bucket from Colab. I followed these instructions

As you can see from the screen shots, there is nothing in the folder after mounting. What am I missing? The Data folder in my bucket is full of data.

Loophole

try prefixing gs:// to your bucket name – Integrant

Answer 1

Turns out you can't mount the bucket name + a path within the bucket. Removing the /Data/ after the name of the bucket led to a successful mount. So since my bucket name is hellonearth, the command is just:

!gcsfuse --implicit-dirs hellonearth myfolder

Loophole

Answer 2

You are using the commands in a wrong way

after !apt -qq install gcsfuse

run:

!mkdir folderOnColab
!gcsfuse gs://folderOnBucket folderOnColab

Then runt !ls instead of just ls

Millner

The gs:// prefix is not necessary - in fact, in gcsfuse v2.0.1, gcsfuse gs://mybucket /mount/point raises the "bucket doesn't exist" error, while removing the prefix fixes the issue (no pun intended). See the documentation for details. – Branchia