hard connecting a usb drive

[BillWright]

  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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