hard connecting a usb drive

[Kai Presler-Marshall]

I'm not sure if this is what you need/want, but have you tried Dropbox?  You
can install it on multiple computers, and then it will keep up to 2GB of
files synced between them and also on their servers.  If you want, I'll send
you a referral link, and you can get an extra 250MB

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Tim Hanson <tjhanson at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I own a couple of laptops running 10.04.  Inevitably, one of them has
> become
> something of a de facto "desktop," which mostly stays at home connected to
> a
> larger screen as well as a better keyboard and mouse, while the other I use
> in
> the traditional role as a travelling companion.
>
> I'm getting tired of trying to keep them synchronized all the time.  What
> I'd
> like to try is to put my home directory on a usb drive.
>
> The downside is that I would always have to have that drive plugged in on
> boot
> to either laptop.  The upside is that I would always be assured I am
> working
> with an up-to-date home directory, regardless of the computer I am using,
> at
> all times.  I could also avoid constantly waiting for rsync to work.
>
> I tried to replace /home/foo with a symlink to /foo on my usb drive, which
> didn't work.  It looks to me as if certain items necessary to loading a
> desktop aren't present when GNOME needs them (probably before the auto
> mount
> utility mounts the drive).
>
> My next attempt will be to put the usb drive directly into /etc/fstab.  I
> have
> read the blkid man page to find out the drive's UUID.  Can anyone find any
> pitfalls to this approach?  Will the automount utility (it used to be HAL,
> but
> now it might be something else) try to mount it again?
>
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