hard connecting a usb drive

[Kai Presler-Marshall]

It does ;)
There's a recently-released Linux version, I run it on Ubuntu 10.10 x64 on
my Lenovo Thinkpad T400 to sync with my custom-built desktop running Kubuntu
10.04 x64

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:36 PM, BillWright <pegasus at sc.rr.com> wrote:

>  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> 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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