hard connecting a usb drive
BillWright
pegasus at sc.rr.com
Sat Sep 25 21:36:29 UTC 2010
On 09/25/2010 04:31 PM, Kai Presler-Marshall wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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I use DROPBOX for my PC setup, works great! To the best of my knowledge
dropbox does not with Linux
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