hard connecting a usb drive

[BillWright]

  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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