hard connecting a usb drive
BillWright
pegasus at sc.rr.com
Sat Sep 25 22:02:08 UTC 2010
Correction, DROPBOX does work with Ubuntu
On 09/25/2010 05:41 PM, Kai Presler-Marshall wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>> <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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