onedrive in Linux

The linux OneDrive client https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive seamlessly supports OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business, OneDrive for Office365, and SharePoint Libraries. See also the GUI for the OneDrive client: https://github.com/bpozdena/OneDriveGUI.

Setup

Install (Ubuntu)

Follow the instructions:

wget -qO - https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-ubuntu-onedrive/xUbuntu_24.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/obs-onedrive.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/obs-onedrive.gpg] https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-ubuntu-onedrive/xUbuntu_24.04/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onedrive.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests onedrive

Authorize the Application

Run onedrive and visit the listed links.

onedrive

Show config

onedrive --display-config

Check if onedrive runs

onedrive --sync --dry-run

The default folder for OneDrive files is ~/OneDrive.

If everything is OK, then download the OneDrive files

onedrive --sync --verbose

Set maximal number of watched files

The onedrive client will watch a lot of files for synchronization and they may exceed the system limit (e.g., 65536). You can check the limits via:

sysctl fs.file-max

for the maximal number of files. And

sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches

for the maximal number of file watches.

You can increase the value by editing /etc/sysctl.conf

fs.inotify.max_user_watches=1048576

Run onedrive client as a service

systemctl --user enable onedrive
systemctl --user start onedrive

To check the service’s status:

systemctl --user status onedrive.service

To view the systemd application logs:

journalctl --user-unit=onedrive -f

The onedrive client will run in the monitor mode (onedrive --monitor), checking the file changes from local and remote and update them periodically.