Google Colab-ValueError: Mountpoint must be in a directory that exists

Question

I want to mount google drive on google Colab and I am using this command to mount the drive

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive/')

but I am getting this error

ValueError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-45-9667a744255b> in <module>()
       1 from google.colab import drive
 ----> 2 drive.mount('content/drive/')

 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/google/colab/drive.py in
 mount(mountpoint, force_remount)
      99       raise ValueError('Mountpoint must either be a directory or not exist')
     100     if '/' in mountpoint and not _os.path.exists(_os.path.dirname(mountpoint)):
 --> 101       raise ValueError('Mountpoint must be in a directory that exists')
     102   except:
     103     d.terminate(force=True)

 ValueError: Mountpoint must be in a directory that exists

Answer 1

@clarky: the error you got was correct tried to tell you that your usage of drive.mount() is incorrect: the mountpoint argument to drive.mount() must be an empty directory that exists, or the name of a non-existent file/directory in a directory that does exist so that the mountpoint can be created as part of the mount operation. Your usage of a relative path in drive.mount('content/drive/') (i.e. content/drive/) implies that the mount should happen at '/content/content/drive' because the interpreter's default path is /content; note the doubled content path component there, and likely you don't already have a directory named /content/content inside of which a mountpoint named drive could be created. The fix to your notebook code is to instead use drive.mount('/content/drive') - note the leading / making the mountpount path absolute instead of relative.